`runstatedir` is only available in Autoconf 2.70, but unless the
distribution is a bleeding edge system, it most likely uses Autoconf
2.69. That said, several major distributions have backported runstatedir
support to the older versions, hiding the issue. See #35.
This change replaces all references to runstatedir to use
$localstatedir/run instead, which is what is recommended by the autoconf
manual.
This also updates the build instructions to add --localstatedir and
--sysconfdir. This is because the lack of the options would have them
default to `$(prefix)/var` and `$(prefix)/etc` respectively, and with
prefix set to `/usr`, these would be the bogus directories `/usr/var`
and `/usr/etc`.
Prior to this change, the user needed to install inih as a dependency,
either from the distribution repositories, or from source. On some
platforms (notably macOS), inih is not available prepackaged, and must
be installed by the user. This tends to cause needless friction.
This change imports the ini.c and ini.h files from the upstream inih
repository into the X52 source tree. This will allow us to build the
repository on any system with the original set of dependencies, and not
have to force the user to install packages themselves.
The configuration options describes the method to override the udev rules directory.
It is not necessary to add it as the default in the build/install instructions.
Prior to this change, the udev rules were fixed to allow read-write
access only to the `plugdev` group. However, while this is the default
group for USB input devices on Debian and its derivatives, this is not
true for some systems such as openSUSE, which use `input` as the group.
This change adds a `--with-input-group` argument to `configure`, which
defaults to `plugdev`. This change also updates the install
documentation to reflect the new options.
Prior to this change, generation of the character lookup table could use
Python 2 or Python 3, depending on what the first instance of python in
the PATH pointed to. On most systems, python is a symbolic link to
python2.7. However, given that Python 2 is EOL, it makes sense to switch
the code to use Python 3 now, rather than later.
This change updates the requirements to use Python 3.6 or later, and
updates the Makefile to invoke the script with the detected python
binary, rather than relying on the shebang to use the system Python.
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