[xine-user] Can't get Xine working with LIRC

[Malcolm-xine <xi...@ld...>]

Hi,

I have a Mandrake 10 box running Kernel 2.6.4 with some patchs and LIRC up
and running.  Other apps, mplayer as example, can connect to lirc and use
it.

Lirc has the dev device file located here (if it makes a difference)
/dev/lirc/lirc0
"lsmod |grep lirc" shows lirc_dev and lirc_i2c.
"ps -ef|grep lirc" shows "/usr/local/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc/lirc0"

Whenever I fire up Xine it does not even attempt to connect to the lircd
daemon.  I'm confirming this by checking /var/log/lircd.

So I figured Mandrake probably compiled Xine without lirc support.  I
downloaded and installed xine-lib and xine-ui from source.

"./configure |grep lirc" shows this
checking for lirc_init in -llirc_client... yes
checking lirc/lirc_client.h usability... yes
checking lirc/lirc_client.h presence... yes
checking for lirc/lirc_client.h... yes
checking for "/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
checking for "/usr/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
checking for "/usr/local/lib/liblirc_client.a"... yes

This leads me to believe it should compile with lirc support right?  A quick
check of the configure options shows there is no flag to enable lirc support
but only to disable it at compile time right?
"./configure --help |grep lirc"
  --disable-lirc          Turn off LIRC support.

So where am I going wrong?  Even after compiling my own xine-lib and
xine-ui, xine still does not attempt to connect to /usr/local/sbin/lircd
(confirmed by checking no client requests in /var/log/lircd).  There are no
errors when starting Xine either (like cannot connect to lirc).

I also tried linking /tmp/.lircd and /tmp/lircd to /dev/lirc/lirc0 as well
but no luck.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Malcolm