Please explain which problem you are facing and how your proposal is going to fix the problem.

This s about header picked up in a certain order. In case of FreeBSD, the uui_create case is taken which comes from the <uuid.h> but ... <uuid/uuid.h> is detected too.

FreeBSD base provides uuid.h (uuid(3)) but uuid libraries/headers can be provided by e2fsprogs-libuuid (for example) in another location, for example /usr/local/

Pythons build system doesn't provide sufficient granularity to pass include/library locations for *specific* components of the build in every circumstance.

The following is a bug related to Python 3.7+ and the uuid.h / linking problem:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229562

The current patch just ignores the third-party (/usr/local) version of uuid.h, allowing the build to proceed with the headers provided by base:

https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=200603

The proper/permanent solution might be to allow a --with-uuid=<location> style build argument

This issue of conflicting / multiple library versions and include order has also come up in various forms for other third party library support in Python, such as gettext (libintl), expat, ssl, libffi, curses)

See the following FreeBSD Python port block for the libintl example:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/python37/Makefile?revision=536776&view=markup#l71

Another example, this time for lzma:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209355

The problem isn't exclusive to FreeBSD. There are at least 3 problems here (see also: issue 32627).

-First is that there are 2 low-level uuid interfaces (3 if you count Windows but that is isolated and not a problem here) supposed to be declared on the headers below:

1) uuid/uuid.h which is supposed to maybe declare
uuid_generate_time_safe and declare uuid_generate_time, and probably must be linked with '-luuid'.

2) uuid.h: which is supposed to declare uuid_create and maybe uuid_enc_be (which as I understand is libc on FreeBSD an some others).

The way it currently works (I guess, 'configure' conspicuously doesn't end in '.py'), 'configure' tries to find uuid/uuid.h, if it succeeds, it `#define HAVE_UUID_UUID_H 1`, then it tries to find 'uuid.h', which on success `#define HAVE_UUID_H 1`.

Then it tries to compile with `#include <uuid/uuid.h>` and getting the address of `uuid_generate_time_safe`. On success, `#define HAVE_UUID_GENERATE_TIME_SAFE 1.`

Next, `#include <uuid.h>` and first tries to compile a code that gets `uuid_create`'s adress (on success `#define HAVE_UUID_CREATE 1`), then compile to get `uuid_enc_be` adress (on success `#define HAVE_UUID_ENC_BE 1`).

The last two ignores header detection information.

-The second problem is on `make build` and 'setup.py':

Then 'setup.py' proceeds to ignore all that and tries to find 'uuid.h' on `Py_build_ext(dist).inc_dirs` or in '/usr/include/uuid', which doesn't work if the user has 'uuid/uuid.h' in `inc_dirs` but not in '/usr/include/uuid'. (It should get the macros from sysconfig and see which header it is looking for and not put '/usr/include/uuid' on the search path, 'configure' already found or not and already disabled the include if not.)

If it finds it, it tries to find the uuid library, and adds it to linking on success, else assumes it doesn't need to do anything else and succeeds.

If it doesn't find the header (which it may not, even if 'configure' did it), it gives up on the module and warns the user in the end of `make build`.

-Third, Modules/_uuidmodule.c (see issue 32627):

Inspect the `#includes` and `py_uuid_generate_time_safe()` and you can probably guess how this happens, and you can probably see another bug waiting to to happen: neither 'configure', nor 'setup.py' actually do what '_uuidmodule.c' is expecting, and `py_uuid_generate_time_safe()` will fallback to `uuid_generate_time()` which may not be declared (which gives you another bug, but on linking time, because you may not have passed '-luuid').

At least on Linux (CentOS) on a custom --prefix, with custom libuuid.so, this proccess fails on Python 3.8.3. I edited 'setup.py' to correctly find the header and the library (for my case, anyway, I have no idea on FreeBSD) and it worked. (You don't support this use case, but that's another issue, just adding more info.)

OP's patch (which appears to be to check the functions only on detection of the respective modules) may work for his specific case, but I suspect that for a more stable solution we need to change _uuidmodule.c and at least one of 'configure(.ac)' and 'setup.py':
 - the module directives should behave as 'configure' tests;
 - which should ideally test for `uuid_generate_time()`;
 -'setup.py' should listen to 'configure' the same way the module directives do.

(and by 'we' I mean I'm volunteering to help, but I will need help on that).

Maybe what I'm saying should be another issue entirely, though I'm adding build to components (and I think we should include 3.8 and 3.9 too). Please advise.