Followup: it looks like for some reason it was building using the contents of ../xf86-input-evtouch_0.8.8.orig.tar.gz. I don't really know my way around dpkg, so I just uninstalled the xserver-xorg-input-evtouch package, then did a ./configure, make, and make install in the source directory, which did the trick.
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