Jan. 4, 2011
4:23 p.m.
If it is possible in the startup script to check whether the libuuid installation is correct then the startup script could print an error message plus information on how to correct the installation. IMO, this would be better than either crashing after startup or hacking the image to avoid the primitive because of a platform error. The issue then is how to check. One straight-forward way would be for the start-up script to invoke a small C program that invoked libuuid in exactly the same way as the UUIDPlugin, and if this fails then the startup script can warn. The issue remains how to correct the installation once the error has been detected.
yes this sounds a good way to deal with it.