But maybe we will learn what features are missing in our implementation ? — Antoine
> On 29 Oct 2023, at 14:33, Landry Breuil <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot a écrit : >> Any reason we don’t want support for it ? > > in our case its just to avoid build breakage :) > >> I mean the whole point in hooking it up is to be able to use it, no? > > im precisely looking at libv4l, and the problem is that if libudev is > found it tries to build libdvbv5 which fails to build because of a > missing linux-only header. > > so with libinput/libudev installed, libv4l builds with > --disable-libdvbv5, without needing to patch configure goo, but > unexpected things might happen if in a future libv4l upgrade more bits > are enabled if libudev is found. > > Landry
