Evrouter from AUR needs PKGBULD wizard

omano · 24 February 2022 08:22

It’s been many years that the package evrouter AUR (en) - evrouter is not able to build from AUR. It was building properly at the end of 2019, early 2020, but nowadays it would not. As a workaround I keep my built package from 2020 but that is not ideal.

Can some AUR wizard have a look at it and basically fix it so we can build the package again?

Here are the errors I get when trying to build it manually or from Pamac:

==> Making package: evrouter 0.4-4 (jeu. 24 févr. 2022 09:05:53)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading evrouter_0.4.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:05 --:--:--     0
100  379k  100  379k    0     0  65683      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:-- 2954k
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    evrouter_0.4.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting evrouter_0.4.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting build()...
acinclude.m4:9: warning: underquoted definition of jm_CHECK_TYPE_STRUCT_UTIMBUF
acinclude.m4:9:   run info Automake 'Extending aclocal'
acinclude.m4:9:   or see https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:46: error: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE expanded multiple times
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:29: the top level
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:46: the top level
autom4te: error: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

I would appreciate if someone comes with a solution, and maybe we can fix it in AUR directly too.

philm · 24 February 2022 09:53

well if the software itself got not updated for years the project is more or less dead

omano · 24 February 2022 18:31

Indeed the package doesn’t receive updates since a long time, however I still use it every day and this is why I’m asking for a volunteer AUR wizard who could sort the building issue as it is out of my competence.

Yochanan · 24 February 2022 18:34

There’s nothing wrong with the PKGBUILD, the problem is upstream. Since it will probably never be updated to build with current tools, you could create an evrouter-bin PKGBUILD using the .deb from the homepage. It may or may not work as it may look for older libraries, but it’s worth a shot.

moson · 24 February 2022 19:00

Here a modded pkgbuild that does build.
Note that I did not try to install or run it…

# Maintainer: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
pkgname=evrouter
pkgver=0.4
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="An Input Event Router for Linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.bedroomlan.org/projects/evrouter"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('libxtst')
makedepends=('automake>=1.10.1')
source=(http://debian.bedroomlan.org/debian/pool/main/e/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('eef1b9d8e3b545c330eb025670ffa3e8')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  sed -i '87d' ./src/evrouter.c
  sed -i '46d' ./configure.ac
  aclocal
  automake --add-missing
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-xmms
  make
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
  install -D -m644 README "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README"
  install -D -m644 debian/changelog "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/changelog"
  install -D -m644 debian/copyright "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/copyright"
  install -D -m755 src/example "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/examples/example"
}

Cheers,
MO

omano · 24 February 2022 19:00

Thank you very much, I will try that

//EDIT: nice, it builds, and works as intended!

Moson is a proper AUR wizard!

//EDIT: I eventually found a tool a week later trying to help someone else here, called Input Remapper, that allows to do basically the same thing I was doing for my mouse, so thank again Moson for helping, but in the end I think I will now use this tool to remap mouse button and make mouse profiles for different use. It even works better as I had issues with imwheel for game specific profile I had to think backwards to have various profiles for various app. Now I can load profiles on the fly.

moson · 24 February 2022 19:29

Here something with a “proper” patch.
A bit nicer than those ugly “sed’s”

PKGBUILD

# Maintainer: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>
pkgname=evrouter
pkgver=0.4
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="An Input Event Router for Linux"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.bedroomlan.org/projects/evrouter"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('libxtst')
makedepends=('automake>=1.10.1')
source=("http://debian.bedroomlan.org/debian/pool/main/e/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}.tar.gz"
		"buildfix.patch")
md5sums=('eef1b9d8e3b545c330eb025670ffa3e8'
         'd4fe1cc6e4ba4305a652ced7063b7a01')

build() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  patch -p1 < ../buildfix.patch
  aclocal
  automake --add-missing
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-xmms
  make
}

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
  install -D -m644 README "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README"
  install -D -m644 debian/changelog "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/changelog"
  install -D -m644 debian/copyright "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/copyright"
  install -D -m755 src/example "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/examples/example"
}

buildfix.patch

diff -bur evrouter-0.4/configure.ac evrouter-0.4_fix/configure.ac
--- evrouter-0.4/configure.ac	2009-03-03 01:01:42.000000000 +0100
+++ evrouter-0.4_fix/configure.ac	2022-02-24 20:13:15.193890870 +0100
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@
 dnl Every other copy of the package version number gets its value from
 dnl here (BUT NOT the files in debian/)
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(evrouter, $PACKAGE_VERSION)
-
 dnl create a config.h file (Automake will add -DHAVE_CONFIG_H)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
diff -bur evrouter-0.4/src/evrouter.c evrouter-0.4_fix/src/evrouter.c
--- evrouter-0.4/src/evrouter.c	2009-03-10 00:09:29.000000000 +0100
+++ evrouter-0.4_fix/src/evrouter.c	2022-02-24 20:13:27.690511694 +0100
@@ -84,7 +84,6 @@
 #include "parser.h"
 #include "cmdline.h"
 
-char * progname;
 
 
 #define NEV 64

system · 27 February 2022 09:30

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