undefined reference, even when the linked library does exist

fixit_fiona

I'm trying to compile VTK from source and I received the following error. I'm running Fedora 27, kernel version 4.14.11-300.fc27.x86_64 /usr/lib64/libSM.so: undefined reference to `uuid_generate@UUID_1.0' /usr/lib64/libSM.so: undefined reference to `uuid_unparse_lower@UUID_1.0' ldd /usr/lib64/libSM.so shows $ldd /usr/lib64/libSM.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd4998b000) libICE.so.6 => /lib64/libICE.so.6 (0x00007f3aa36ff000) libuuid.so.1 =>...

Originally asked by senthil ramamurthy on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Try adding a -luuid to the link. According to my understanding of *.so files you shouldn't have to do that, but in my case it fixes a similar problem.

Full answer by Gary: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/495109 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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