Re: devel/got-portable: build failure on Darwin, if ossp-uuid is linked

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 07:11:53PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Paolo Vincenzo Olivo <vins%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Understood; at this point I see no reason to not rely on libuuid on
> > macOS too, instead of maintaining an additional patch, be it trivial.
> > Apparently libuuid is not available on macOS via Homebrew, while OSSP
> > uuid is: a very likely reason for the got-portable README to recommend
> > ossp-uuid as dependency on macOS in place of libuuid.  
> > I'll push the change to the package Makefile.
> 
> If libuuid is ok, then I wonder why not use it everywhere?  It feels a
> bit icky  and contrary to the pkgsrc way to change the build based on OS
> when not absolutely necessary.   And, it seems worth an upstream bug
> report that they recommend a library which clashes with the operating
> system.

There are two different "UUID" interfaces around. NetBSD has one based
on older standard, Ext2 pushed for a different variation of the same
theme. Some programs support both, many Linuxware only the Ext2 variant.

Joerg