On Monday 22 October 2012 11:53:32 Koehne Kai wrote: > Hi, > > In Qt 5 we're relying on libxcb instead of the aging xlib. One drawback is > that it limits the portability of Qt binaries on Linux (AFAIK xcb isn't > part of any LSB). But it turns out the real dealbreaker when trying to have > a somewhat portable Qt binary on Linux is libxcb-icccu: E.g. I can't run a > Qt compiled on Ubuntu 11.10 on my OpenSUSE 12.1 because of this dependency, > and the LSB appchecker even says it's not available on any platform known > to him. > > Now I don't have a real understanding of icu, and couldn't really figure out > what libxcb-icccm does. I learnt it's an acronym for "Inter-Client > Communication Convention" , but how crucial is it? Would it be feasible to > make icccm optional for the icu platform plugin (preferably by configure > switch)?
Hi, If you already have considered the option, is there any reason we can't ship it as a binary? Or link statically with it? -- Olivier Woboq - Qt services and support - http://woboq.com _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
