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I am using centos7 and am trying to build this https://github.com/daveti/prov-tools/tree/master/system however I get 

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -luuid

I did yum install with libuuid and it says that its installed, but I'm missing libuuid.a it seems. However there is no libuuid-static. Is there a package I'm missing or can I change my makefile so that i makes.

Here is the makefile

PREFIX ?= /usr CFLAGS ?= -Wall -Werror CFLAGS += -std=gnu99 -static BINARIES = pbang ncred elijah fixbang OBJECTS = plog all: $(BINARIES) clean: $(RM) $(BINARIES) $(addsuffix .o,$(OBJECTS)) install: $(addprefix install-,$(BINARIES)) install-%: % install -D $< $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/sbin/$< ncred elijah: plog.o pbang: LDLIBS += -lz -luuid .PHONY: all clean install

EDIT : I verified that I have libuuid.so using find, but I'm not sure how I would link to this?

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You need libuuid-devel , this package provide libraries for compiling .

libuuid provide libraries fro running

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    I have both libuuid and libuuid-devel installed. Commented Jul 1, 2018 at 4:36
  • Still can't find the libraries Commented May 26, 2019 at 14:55
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Red Hat gives rationale on bug 596898. Essentially, static libraries, particularly for basic infrastructure, are very strongly discouraged (it has been ages since the dynamic library machinery last acted up on me, so I heartily agree).

In general, I'd try looking for the package containing the presumable file name, something like:

dnf provides /usr/lib64/libuuuid.a

(dnf is smart in that it also recognizes e.g. pieces of TeX or Perl/Python modules by name). Then you can ask for further information an any hits, and decide what to do. If in a hurry and feeling reckless:

dnf -y install /usr/lib64/libuuuid.a
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