Without a version bump, libSM-1.1.1 now requires util-linux (even though libSM-1.1.1 built successfully without util-linux previously). util-linux is masked in prefix due to being platform-specific, with a note that a e2fsprogs-uuid ebuild is needed (but has this been superseded by the split of e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs?). This means that (at least) the following ebuilds can no longer be installed: app-editors/vim:0 media-libs/jasper:0 net-im/pidgin:0 sys-apps/dbus:0 sys-apps/groff:0 x11-apps/appres:0 x11-libs/libwnck:0 x11-libs/libXaw:0 x11-libs/libXmu:0 x11-libs/libXpm:0 x11-libs/libXt:0 x11-libs/startup-notification:0 x11-misc/notification-daemon:0 Looking at the ebuild, it seems that someone has decided that FreeBSD and SunOS are the only prefix architectures without util-linux... IRIX (elibc_IRIX) also needs to be excluded from the list of libc's which don't need/support util-linux. (Wouldn't a better approach be to only enable uuid support when elibc_glibc (and elibc_uclibc?) is set, rather than by excluding all other elibc_* options?)
Actually, almost all OSes have some libuuid provided, but Linux.
does IRIX have a libuuid actually?
I'm not 100% sure this is what's needed, but on IRIX: " NAME uuid_create, uuid_create_nil, uuid_compare, uuid_equal, uuid_is_nil, uuid_hash, uuid_from_string, uuid_to_string - Universal Unique Identifier functions SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/uuid.h> void uuid_create (uuid_t *uuid, uint_t *status); void uuid_create_nil (uuid_t *uuid, uint_t *status); boolean_t uuid_is_nil (uuid_t *uuid, uint_t *status); boolean_t uuid_equal (uuid_t *uuid1, uuid_t *uuid2, uint_t *status); int uuid_compare (uuid_t *uuid1, uuid_t *uuid2, uint_t *status); void uuid_to_string (uuid_t *uuid, char **uuid_str, uint_t *status); void uuid_from_string (char *uuid_str, uuid_t *uuid, uint_t *status); ushort_t uuid_hash (uuid_t *uuid, uint_t *status); DESCRIPTION Universal Unique Identifiers are bit strings that may be generated independently on separate nodes (hosts) such that globally unique strings result without requiring the hosts to be in communication with each other to ensure uniqueness. They are a component of DCE that have been independently reimplemented in IRIX, but is in accordance with the DCE specification. This implementation is API compatible with the DCE implementation. " ... these functions appear to by in libc, with no additional libraries needed.
I added IRIX to the list
interix requires libuuid from e2fsprogs-libs - i don't have any alternative for that it seems. (haven't built libSM right now though).
