I am in the process of updating libinput and have a couple of issues I'd
like to discuss.
First, several months ago I moved libinput into xorg drivers. Upon
review, that may have been a mistake. There is nothing in Xorg that uses
it. The references in the book are:
general/sysutils/weston.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
gnome/platform/mutter.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
kde/plasma5/plasma-all.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
x/lib/qt5.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>
x/lib/clutter.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>,
xfce/core/xfce4-settings.xml: <xref linkend="libinput"/>
IIRC, I moved libinput from General Libraries where Armin placed it
initially. I now propose moving it back.
Second, the build and install of libinput-1.4.0 is straight forward, but
virtually all the checks fail. In order to run the checks both the check
program and valgrind need to be installed. However most of the checks are
based on valgrind and valgrind fails. This is because we strip
/lib/ld-2.23.so with --strip unneeded in LFS.
When checking some major distros, they make a ld-2.23.so.dbg file
available as a replacement for the normally stripped ld-2.23.so file that
would be installed with something like:
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-2.23.so.dbg
This file comes from glibc.
The question here is how to handle it. We can change the LFS stripping
procedure to do something like:
cp /lib/ld-2.23.so /tmp/ld-2.23.so.dbg
and then continue with
/tools/bin/find /lib /usr/lib -type f -name \*.so* \
-exec /tools/bin/strip --strip-unneeded {} ';'
mv /tmp/ld-2.23.so.dbg /lib
Then users can use the .dbg version just by changing the
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 symlink.
Another option is to say that libinput does not come with a workable test
suite.
A third option is to describe the issue and say how to test the package
but that we have not run the tests.
I'm leaning toward this third option, but only slightly.
I appreciate any thoughts you may have about this package.
-- Bruce
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