[Development] Removing libudev dependency from binary packages?

[Laszlo Papp]

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34329


On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Knoll Lars <Lars.Knoll at digia.com> wrote:

> Sounds like dlopen¹ing is the way to go. Sucky, but at least it¹ll work.
> And according to the post below most things should be compatible between
> udev0 and udev1.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
>
> On 24/10/13 16:28, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
>
> >On quinta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2013 13:46:39, Koehne Kai wrote:
> >> I just asked, it seems not to be possible:
> >>
> >>
> http://www.marshut.com/yiqmk/can-apps-ship-their-own-copy-of-libudev.html
> >>
> >>
> >> So we're back to either moving the libudev dependency to a plugin that
> >> qtserialport tries to load (huh), we live with the fact that
> >>qtserialport
> >> won't work on some distributions, or we compile it unconditionally
> >>without
> >> libudev support. I don't mind either way ...
> >
> >Ok, thanks Kai
> >
> >That answers the part about shipping (static or dynamic). So the only
> >option
> >is dynamic loading (ugh) or skipping support entirely (also ugh).
> >
> >PS: None of the systemd developers were in my binary compatibility
> >session
> >yesterday here at LinuxCon.
> >
> >PPS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRAKuis7T8 @ 16:55
> >"people have heard my complaints about the fact that the Linux desktop is
> >this
> >morass of infighting and people who do bad things"
> >"I do hope that the desktop people would just try to work together and
> >work
> >more on the technology"
> >Linus started complaining about the problems on the userspace *because*
> >of
> >udev. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/303.
> >
> >--
> >Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
> >  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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