diff --git a/sflphone-common/configure.ac b/sflphone-common/configure.ac
index 26e30db19b5a01ba2587746361378d971a58550c..a11adcf4d22b012990dde9f07f057cfb04705264 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/configure.ac
+++ b/sflphone-common/configure.ac
@@ -157,10 +157,13 @@ AC_CHECK_TYPES([ptrdiff_t])
 #AC_SUBST(SIP_CFLAGS)
 
 	dnl Check for uuid development package - name: uuid-dev 
-	dnl UUID_MIN_VERSION=1.0
 	dnl PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UUID, uuid >= ${UUID_MIN_VERSION})
 	dnl AC_SUBST(UUID_CFLAGS)
 dnl AC_SUBST(UUID_LIBS)
+UUID_MIN_VERSION=1.0
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(UUID, uuid >= ${UUID_MIN_VERSION}, HAVE_UUID=true, HAVE_UUID=false);
+AC_SUBST(UUID_CFLAGS)
+AC_SUBST(UUID_LIBS)
 
 	dnl Check for alsa development package - name: libasound2-dev 
 	LIBASOUND2_MIN_VERSION=1.0
diff --git a/sflphone-common/src/Makefile.am b/sflphone-common/src/Makefile.am
index 05ac52d8b86b95592d71d041150dc615160969d3..ec1ebffe3fa348a710ae7f8bc181aee7ef15562d 100644
--- a/sflphone-common/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/sflphone-common/src/Makefile.am
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ sflphoned_LDADD = \
 		@libssl_LIBS@
 
 # sflphoned_LDFLAGS= -pg -luuid
-# sflphoned_LDFLAGS= -luuid
+sflphoned_LDFLAGS= $(UUID_LIBS)
 
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libsflphone.la