Commit 65c7a07b authored Jul 31, 2014 by Thomas Petazzoni

libevdev: remove host python dependency

In commit 79c31e32 ("package/libevdev:
add dependency on host-python"), Yann added a dependency of libevdev
on host-python, because the Python script in evdev was using argparse
which is only available since Python 2.6. At the time, this was
causing failures on machines that were using Python versions older
than 2.6.

However, since Yann's patch, the libevdev version has been bumped. And
one of the upstream commit,
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libevdev/commit/libevdev/?id=cea8f0b8cc86332b0643acd62f24f9fef2ecc153

,
was precisely made to remove the argparse dependency to avoid the
need to have a >= 2.6 Python version.

Thanks to this, we can avoid the host-python dependency and rely on
the system-installed Python version instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

parent 8eb35413

package/libevdev/libevdev.mk

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		@@ -12,13 +12,6 @@ LIBEVDEV_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
		# Uses PKG_CHECK_MODULES() in configure.ac
		LIBEVDEV_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf

		# Needs Python to generate a header file
		# We can't rely on the system Python, since it may be too old
		# (missing argparse in python 2.6)
		# libevdev build scripts support both python2 and python3, so avoid unneeded
		# dependency on host-python.
		LIBEVDEV_DEPENDENCIES += $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_PYTHON3),host-python3,host-python)

		# package source code coming from git, so it doesn't have generated
		# configure and Makefile.in
		LIBEVDEV_AUTORECONF = YES