[Buildroot] [git commit] libevdev: remove host python dependency

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jul 31 21:15:50 UTC 2014


commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=65c7a07bba198fbb2b6b57f539165f3395a51551
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

In commit 79c31e3297da7f0aec4d4675c154736e4cffe3ed ("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 at free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
---
 package/libevdev/libevdev.mk |    7 -------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk b/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
index 738af92..a9a1d41 100644
--- a/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
+++ b/package/libevdev/libevdev.mk
@@ -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


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