Re: lang/python37 and libuuid

[Thomas Klausner <tk%giga.or.at@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:59:15PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> I wrote:
> >Can we make lang/python37 only use devel/libuuid/buildlink3.mk on
> >platforms that really need it ?
> >
> >I'm guessing that this would be Linux that would require it.
> >
> >The python37 package builds fine on NetBSD without including libuuid
> >but would fail if libuuid was installed as setup.py will find. Maybe
> >need some changes to the setup.py patch to change the logic around
> >uuid detection.
> >
> >A NetBSD-8 build host would probably have installed libuuid as a
> >dependency of fonts/fontconfig.
> 
> I looked into this a bit more, python37 doesn't need libuuid at all
> on NetBSD, it can use the UUID functions in libc.

That's true. But then the test_uuid self test fails :(
 Thomas