This library is copied from the util-linux package.
It was written by Theodore Ts'o and it is BSD licensed.
This git repository adds a CMake buildsystem and an spkg-install file. It leaves the original autotools Makefile.am/in files intact, so that once can debug the CMake build system if it is doing something different (link options, etc.).
The motivation for this repository is so that one can easily install just the uuid library, needed by some other packages (like zeromq), without the need to install the whole util-linux package.
Just like any other cmake based project:
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="somewhere" . make make install
Look into the spkg-install file for an example.