Add uuidgen to AthGeneration, 21.6 (2022.07.07.)
Added the build of the uuidgen executable to the AthGeneration project, as a solution proposal for ATLINFR-4616.
Since this is a problem very specifically for 21.6, I didn't want to add code for it into atlas/atlasexternals. It seemed good enough to just add the code to specifically this branch.
I downloaded all the sources from https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux, as that seemed to be the most up-to-date version of this executable. But:
- This is GPLv2 code. Requiring us to put their license into our repository. Which I'm not chuffed about.
- I had to tweak the code a little to work with the older version of libuuid coming from LCG_88b.
- But this still seemed a little easier than to figure out exactly which version of the code to take for the specific version of
libuuidthat we have.
- But this still seemed a little easier than to figure out exactly which version of the code to take for the specific version of
- Wow was the build setup of this code in CMake not completely trivial.
- Still, I definitely didn't want to build everything from util-linux with its own build system just to get the
uuidgenexecutable.
- Still, I definitely didn't want to build everything from util-linux with its own build system just to get the
I'd leave it to @elmsheus and @nstyles to decide if including GPLv2 code in the repository may be acceptable.
Edited by Attila Krasznahorkay