[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 22 de November de 2011 09.58.02, lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> A IMO better solution would be to have a repository called e.g. qtsupport
> (KDE had something similar for quite a while) that contains copies to
> these 3rd party libraries for convenience.

I'd prefer that too.

And to keep Craig happy for LSB support, if PCRE isn't on it, we should ensure 
that the qtsupport always builds the libraries it needs as static and 
privately installs them for Qt only. We'll need then to tweak Qt's build 
system -- I'm not volunteering! -- to do a whole-archive linkage.

That is when you link a static library into a dynamic library by importing all 
the .o files into it. The static library must have been built with -fPIC and is 
then known as "convenience library".

Once "conveniently linked", the .a files can be removed. They should not get 
deployed on devices.

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