Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-08-20 15:13, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Doing an "import uuid" in python causes a segmentation fault unless
>> libuuid-devel is installed. It appears from the strace that something is
>> trying to find libuuid.dll.a. Installing libuuid-devel fixes the problem.
>
> You are indeed correct. The stdlib uuid.py loads libuuid via
> ctypes.util.find_library, which (with our patchset) finds the actual DLL
> name via the import library. (This is also true on ELF platforms,
> although the actual mechanism is somewhat different.)
>
> I have added libuuid-devel to both python and python3 requires.
I think binutils is also required. An strace shows a use of dlltool and
python will segfault if it's not installed.
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