Avoid conflict between contrib/uuid and system uuid

glusterfs relies on Linux uuid implementation, which
API is incompatible with most other systems's uuid. As
a result, libglusterfs has to embed contrib/uuid,
which is the Linux implementation, on non Linux systems.
This implementation is incompatible with systtem's
built in, but the symbols have the same names.

Usually this is not a problem because when we link
with -lglusterfs, libc's symbols are trumped. However
there is a problem when a program not linked with
-lglusterfs will dlopen() glusterfs component. In
such a case, libc's uuid implementation is already
loaded in the calling program, and it will be used
instead of libglusterfs's implementation, causing
crashes.

A possible workaround is to use pre-load libglusterfs
in the calling program (using LD_PRELOAD on NetBSD for
instance), but such a mechanism is not portable, nor
is it flexible. A much better approach is to rename
libglusterfs's uuid_* functions to gf_uuid_* to avoid
any possible conflict. This is what this change attempts.

BUG: 1206587
Change-Id: I9ccd3e13afed1c7fc18508e92c7beb0f5d49f31a
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/10017
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Reviewed-by: Niels de Vos <ndevos@redhat.com>

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