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authorPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2017-05-04 13:22:03 +1000
committerPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>2017-05-04 13:47:26 +1000
commitde7365bb0af65ab811809bc3de1505416af42231 (patch)
treeb1b4a662f758d9aa94666f3c1f4dbfd46687b0a1 /doc
parent37397bb2187b84eb52b64c377d01fec944ae8e58 (diff)
doc: update build instructions for lack of autodetection
Since we dropped autodetection of features in configure, these instructions were incorrect. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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@@ -121,25 +121,21 @@ environment where tablet support is not required. libinput provides tablet
support even without libwacom, but some features may be missing or working
differently.
-@subsection buildling_event-gui Building the graphical helper tool
+@subsection buildling_event-gui Building without the graphical helper tool
Only the commandline @ref tools are installed by distributions. The
@ref event-gui graphical helper tools is only available in the source
repository.
-The graphical helper tool is optional and requires extra libraries to build.
-If these libraries are not detected, the tool will not be built. If you need
-the tool for debugging purposes, use the ``--enable-event-gui`` argument
+The graphical helper tool is enabled by default but requires extra libraries
+to build. If these libraries are not available, the build will fail.
+If the tool is not required, use the ``--disable-event-gui`` argument
when @ref building.
@code
-$> ./autogen.sh --enable-event-gui --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
+$> ./autogen.sh --disable-event-gui --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
@endcode
-As usual, any missing library headers will then trigger an error and can be
-addressed one-by-one.
-
-
@section building_against Building against libinput
libinput provides a