Support using the uuidgen command if the uuid command is not available.

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Joey Hess 2011-01-19 18:08:50 -04:00
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commit dbb76c22d0
5 changed files with 82 additions and 38 deletions

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On RHEL5 (and clones) systems uuidgen is available as an alternative to uuid, the configure script fails, it should probably detect either uuid or uuidgen, or let the user decide? - also uuidgen behaves differently from uuid on debian.
On RHEL5 (and clones) systems uuidgen is available as an alternative to
uuid, the configure script fails, it should probably detect either uuid or
uuidgen, or let the user decide? - also uuidgen behaves differently from
uuid on debian.
> uuidgen is now supported. --[[Joey]] [[done]]

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* MissingH: <http://github.com/jgoerzen/missingh/wiki>
* pcre-light: <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pcre-light>
* `uuid`: <http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid/>
(or uuidgen from util-linux)
* `xargs`: <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/findutils/>
* `rsync`: <http://rsync.samba.org/>
* Then just [[download]] git-annex and run: `make; make install`