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Hi, Adam. |
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:07:02PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> >> No you just need to rebuild it, so emerge xf86-input-evdev |
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> > This problem hit me too. Can you give us an explanation for needing to |
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> > rebuild evdev? Was there some missing dependency in an ebuild, or |
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> > something? |
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> If you update xorg (which OP didnt list, but a new version just went |
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> stable) you need to rebuild its drivers (unless they were |
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> automatically rebuilt due to version bump). |
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Hmm. Recompiling the same source code produces a different binary? |
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Presumably, it uses C macros in a .h file which is part of xorg. Or |
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something like that. |
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So evdev depends on xorg. Isn't there a way of expressing this in |
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evdev's ebuild? Something like the DEPEND variable? |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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