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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Peter Hutterer 2017-05-04 13:22:03 +10:00
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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