On Sat, 2016-07-23 at 17:05 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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
I was going to bring this up several months ago when I was looking into
going 100% wayland, but it slipped by the wayside. I agree that it does
not belong in the XORG section and should be moved out. But I did come
across the following xorg driver, xf86-input-libinput (X.Org libinput driver)
which I have started using.
There is a blurb about it at the bottom of this page:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
BTW, I gave up on wayland (gnome) as there are still many unresolved issues,
namely no mouse locking (for FPS games) among other things.
Regards,
Wayne.
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