Make it possible to disable udev in linux

content/content_browser.gypi

 # Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 {
   'dependencies': [
     'browser/speech/proto/speech_proto.gyp:speech_proto',
     '../base/base.gyp:base_static',
     '../crypto/crypto.gyp:crypto',
     '../google_apis/google_apis.gyp:google_apis',
@@ skipping 1379 matching lines @@
         # For FcLangSetAdd call in render_sandbox_host_linux.cc
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:fontconfig',
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:gtk',
         # For XShm* in backing_store_x.cc
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:x11',
         '../dbus/dbus.gyp:dbus',
       ],
     }],
     ['OS=="linux"', {
       'dependencies': [
+        '../sandbox/sandbox.gyp:libc_urandom_override',
+      ],
+    }],
+    ['use_udev == 1', {
+      'dependencies': [
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:udev',
-        '../sandbox/sandbox.gyp:libc_urandom_override',
+      ],
+      'defines': [
+        'USE_UDEV',

[jam, 2013/11/14 17:37:29]

nit: the convention is that this is done in build\common.gypi, see the big
section there starting at line 2000

[Mostyn Bramley-Moore, 2013/11/14 19:58:22]

Done.

(Though this has the small downside of invalidating lots of ccache on the next
build.)

+      ],
+    }, {
+      'sources!': [
+        'browser/device_monitor_linux.cc',
+        'browser/device_monitor_linux.h',
+        'browser/gamepad/gamepad_platform_data_fetcher_linux.cc',
+        'browser/udev_linux.cc',
+        'browser/udev_linux.h',
+      ],
+      'sources': [
+        'browser/gamepad/gamepad_platform_data_fetcher.cc',

[jam, 2013/11/14 17:37:29]

can you just update the condition on line 1245 to be
(OS!="linux" || use_udev==0)

[Mostyn Bramley-Moore, 2013/11/14 19:58:22]

Done.

       ],
     }],
     ['OS=="linux" and use_aura==1', {
       'dependencies': [
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:dbus',
         '../build/linux/system.gyp:fontconfig',
         '../dbus/dbus.gyp:dbus',
       ],
     }],
     ['use_x11==1', {
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         ['exclude', '^browser/speech/input_tag_speech_dispatcher_host\\.(cc|h)$'],
       ],
     }, {  # input_speech==1
       'dependencies': [
         '../third_party/flac/flac.gyp:libflac',
         '../third_party/speex/speex.gyp:libspeex',
       ],
     }],
   ],
 }