can't read /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.la

[whitis]

makefile assumes, incorrectly, that libudev.la exists.
This ultimately breaks compilation of idevicerestore

ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/local/src/libirecovery' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory /usr/local/src/libirecovery/src'
CC libirecovery_la-libirecovery.lo
CCLD libirecovery.la
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.la: No such file or directory
libtool: link: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[2]: *** [libirecovery.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/local/src/libirecovery/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/libirecovery'
make: *** [all] Error 2

ii libudev1:amd64 204-5ubuntu2 amd64 libudev shared library
ii libudev1:i386 204-5ubuntu2 i386 libudev shared library
ii libudev-dev 204-5ubuntu2 amd64 libudev development files

dpkg --listfiles libudev1/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libudev1
/usr/share/doc/libudev1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libudev1/copyright
/lib
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1.3.5
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1

dpkg --listfiles libudev-dev
/.
/usr
/usr/include
/usr/include/libudev.h
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libudev.pc
/usr/share
/usr/share/gtk-doc
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-list.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/up-insensitive.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/ch01.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/api-index-full.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/style.css
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/index.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/home.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/left.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-hwdb.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-enumerate.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/index.sgml
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/left-insensitive.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/right-insensitive.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/up.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-monitor.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev.devhelp2
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-device.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/right.png
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-util.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev-queue.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libudev/libudev-udev.html
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libudev-dev
/usr/share/doc/libudev-dev/copyright
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so
/usr/share/doc/libudev-dev/changelog.Debian.gz