[Development] Removing libudev dependency from binary packages?

[Laszlo Papp]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo <dangelog at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 22 October 2013 12:35, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
> > PS.: But yes, so much for Linux distributions keeping binary
> compatibility.
> > :/
>
> PS: there is no such concept for non-LSB software. For those, you just
> need to compile it against the distribution itself; binaries produced
> by other means have no such guarantees. It's probably something we
> should be more aware of when we introduce a dependency on a new
> "system" library. (Or we might ditch the "linux installers" as they
> are now, and provide deb/rpm packages for the major distributions).


Actually, I would prefer Thiago's suggestion about the static linking of
udev for QtSerialPort if that is possible rather than own packages. The
size [1] hardly matters even on embedded:

Laszlo

[1] du -sh /usr/lib/libudev.so.1.4.0
72K     /usr/lib/libudev.so.1.4.0
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