You can probably just BUILD_DEPENDS on sysutils/e2fsprogs, I think that's
basically the same uuid library as in utils-linux.
Alternatively you can often patch to use the uuid functions we have in libc
without too much trouble.
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Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
On 4 August 2025 09:35:06 Dave Voutila <[email protected]> wrote:
While hacking on EDK2 stuff, to build it natively on OpenBSD requires a
uuid library that's part of some linux project calls utils-linux. 95% or
more of the stuff in that project is useless to OpenBSD and I just need
the libuuid stuff, so porting all of "utils-linux" is overkill.
Where I'm stuck is getting the ports system to deal with a port not
named after the distfile in any way. Maybe someone here can create a
Makefile without even trying :D
Building libuuid is simple:
1. fetch
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.41/util-linux-2.41.1.tar.gz
2. unpack it
3. configure with:
./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-libuuid \
--local-prefix=/usr/local
4. make install
Help me obiwan kenobi...
-dv
