# PV-compilation problems with libSM and uuid

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pv-compilation-problems-with-libsm-and-uuid/884
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pv-compilation-problems-with-libsm-and-uuid/884 "2018-11-12T14:35:55Z")
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### Author: ![gosia](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/gosia/32/9176_2.png) [@gosia](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/gosia)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/pv-compilation-problems-with-libsm-and-uuid/884/5 "2018-11-12T18:37:06Z")

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thank you!

can you please point me to a file in which i should set up this variable?  
grep in paraview does not show anything, also echo $X11\_SM\_LIBRARY is empty

best wishes,  
gosia

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