[ovs-dev] [bug] uuid_from_string conflicts with FreeBSD libc

[Dmitry Marakasov]

Hi!

I've found an old bug in FreeBSD bugzilla:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238331

reporting an incorrect behavior of ovs due to conflict of
uuid_from_string() defined in lib/uuid.* with the function with
same name from FreeBSD standard C library:

    void uuid_from_string(const char*, uuid_t*, uint32_t*);

Here's FreeBSD manpage with the list of all functions (by pure
change tere are no other conflicts):

    https://www.unix.com/man-page/FreeBSD/3/uuid_create/

The suggested workaround was to switch to static linking to make
ovs' symbol used.

IMO this should be fixed upstream, probably by prefixing uuid_*
functions to avoid this and similar conflicts.

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