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+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2014 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="libevdev"
+PKG_VERSION="1.2.2"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libevdev/"
+PKG_URL="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/libevdev/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="system"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libevdev: a wrapper library for evdev devices."
+PKG_LONGDESC="libevdev is a wrapper library for evdev devices. it moves the common tasks when dealing with evdev devices into a library and provides a library interface to the callers, thus avoiding erroneous ioctls, etc."
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+
+PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-shared --enable-static"
+
+post_makeinstall_target() {
+  rm -rf $INSTALL/usr/bin
+}