On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Andrew Hume wrote:
> the symptom:
> i figured i am using fairly vanilla C and compiling afresh
> on the prod servers anyway so how could i go wrong?
> well, some package i am using uses ./configure to look
> at stuff and failed at testing for -luuid. the library was there
> (/lib64/libuuid.so.1) but ld couldn't find it. same library setup
> on the 5.4 system but gcc could find it. grrrrrrr.
> in a fit of pique, i did a ln -s /lib64/libuuid.so.1 /lib64/libuuid.so
> and that fixed teh problem on the 5.5 system.

I've seen something similar before, but unfortunately don't have the 
details anywhere near me.

cheers!
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