Re: error while loading shared libraries: liblirc.so.0

[Alec L. <lea...@gm...>]

On 20/03/17 02:39, EdwinDrood wrote:
> I got the same error.  I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and I use the lircd for my
> Haupauge PVR box.  After a kernel update, the lircd which was working for
> over a year just stopped.   Not in kernel ???  My /dev/lirc0 is just
> missing.  I was hoping that compiling the lircd would fix it.

/dev/lirc0 is created by the kernel, lircd is not involved in this at all.

> I downloaded lircd 0.9.4d and ran the normal ./configure, make make install
> and got the error that the liblirc.so.0 could not be found.

This is according to GNU standards - without options the install goes 
into /usr/local.  This could he handled using ldconfig rather than 
creating symlinks, but it's just the tip of the iceberg - there are 
multiple configuration issues when installing from source.

You might want to use the debian source package instead - it builds a 
debian package with proper paths.

But bottom line is that it's probably best to restore lircd and focus on 
the kernel update - this is the culprit, and lircd  cannot do anything 
about a missing /dev/lirc0.


Cheers!

--alec