Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 08:17:56AM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote:
>> Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> writes:
>>
>> > You can probably just BUILD_DEPENDS on sysutils/e2fsprogs, I think that's basically the same uuid library as in
>> > utils-linux.
>> >
>>
>> Sadly it doesn't appear to be or the way e2fsprogs installs it, it
>> doesn't work. /shrug
>>
>> > Alternatively you can often patch to use the uuid functions we have in libc without too much trouble.
>>
>> That might be a good option now that you mention it. I'll take a
>> peek. Either UEFI or the edk2 implementation seems full of GUIDs and i
>> don't see why there would be anything special in the utils-linux
>> version.
>
> Are those uuid functions needed for some build-time only tools?  Or
> are they supposed to be used as part of the edk2 image?  If the
> latter, you don't need libuuid.so but a specially built libuuid
> targetting bare metal/the EFI ABI.

I believe it's build-time only as it's used by a build tool that helps
assemble the resulting firmware image. I see no references to it in the
actual firmware code.