Re: For Info - libgudev-238 can't be built

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

> On 11 Jul 2023, at 14:44, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 10/07/2023 19:46, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hey,
>> Thanks for looking into this.
>> Is there a specific reason why we are not updating to 3.2.12? Just curious here...
> No reason, other than I didn't realise that there was a newer version of eudev until I started to look into the problems I was having with libgudev.
> 
> libgudev I knew had been updated because it was updated on Arch Linux but they use systemd and therefore use the systemd-udev package.
> 
> I will do an update of eudev to 3.2.12
>>   https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/releases/tag/v3.2.12
>> For completeness, here is the issue:
>>   https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev/issues/249
>> And what do we actually need libgudev for? Do we know this?
> I have no idea.
> 
> The Gnome wiki page for it says
> 
> "This library provides GObject bindings for libudev. It was originally part of udev-extras, then udev, then systemd. It's now a project on its own."
> 
> I just looked in the IPFire git repo and found it was introduced in December 2022 as being a dependency for libqmi for the 5G and newer 4G modems

Ah, in that case we need it :)

-Michael

> Regards,
> Adolf.
> 
>> -Michael
>>> On 9 Jul 2023, at 15:51, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> For info, the latest version of libgudev, 238, fails to build because it is looking for a libudev of at least 251 and eudev has version 243.
>>> 
>>> This has been reported as an issue to the eudev issues section in github 3 days ago. Someone has tried just changing the version number in the libgudev meson requirements section but then the build fails because there is a new function which has been added in the systemd udev that is not yet in the standalone eudev package.
>>> 
>>> I will keep an eye out on the eudev issues page for this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Adolf.
>>> 
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