Problems compiling lirc-0.9.0

[Peter <pet...@nt...>]

Hello,

I am trying yet again, to get my RedRat3 to work in my Mandriva 2011 
distro. I go through the instruction given at the RedRat website, '2. 
run setup.sh select driver configuration (1) select USB devices (8) 
select Redrat3 (option C at the very bottom) select Save configuration & 
run configure, run make' and the configure file is written, no problems 
reported.

When I type make, it shows up with this error.

   gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I..    -O2 -g -Wall -MT hw_ftdi.o -MD 
-MP -MF .deps/hw_ftdi.Tpo -c -o hw_ftdi.o hw_ftdi.c
hw_ftdi.c:54:18: fatal error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [hw_ftdi.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/Downloads/lirc-0.9.0/daemons'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/Downloads/lirc-0.9.0/daemons'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/Downloads/lirc-0.9.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2.

My kernel is 64 bit 3.0.9-1mdv

I've tried more than once to get my RedRat working, but kind of gave up 
because the Win7 which was on the machine when I bought it, was broken 
and would only work in safe mode, but I have fixed it and now 
established that my RedRat works fine in the way that I want it to on 
Win7 ie I point a remote at my RedRat, click an icon to record the 
signal that emits from the remote after pressing one of it's buttons. 
Then when I want to control the media in my living room instead of 
scrabbling about looking for the correct remote, I click on an icon on 
my desktop and can mute the sound of all those people trying to 
brainwash me into insuring my car with them. The thing is, the coders at 
RedRat have not written a program to record the ir signals in Linux, you 
have to do this in Windows.


Ok I could just use Windows as my OS, but I hate using Windows because 
it makes me feel like a sleeping with a woman I might catch something 
from :(

Regards,

Peter.

http://dollyknot.com