[Development] Removing libudev dependency from binary packages?

[Koehne Kai]

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> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 12:07 AM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Removing libudev dependency from binary
> packages?
> 
> [...]
>
> Anyway, my suggestion thus:
>  - QtSerialPort: statically link to libudev
>  - QtWebKit: don't link to libudev
>  - evdev plugins: don't build
>  - libqgtk2: fix, it doesn't need libudev
> 
> The fix for libqgtk2 can probably be:
> linux: QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl,--as-needed

Sounds like a good plan to me. 

Technically, how should we tackle the 'statically link' part? Shall we import the libudev sources into qtserialport.git, and compile there? Do we need a separate '-qt-libudev' option to configure, or just link statically in qtserialport if libudev configure check fails / -no-libudev is passed to configure? And who volunteers to do the patches? :)

Regards

Kai


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>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center