[mythtv] Mythtv Configure Failure

[Angel Li]

Eric Bosch wrote:

>I am running Gentoo Linux 2005.1 w/updates, and after my last update
>(rsync) and I attempt to execute configure --prefix=/usr
>--enable-opengl-vsync --enable-lirc, it fails to enable lirc support. 
>It worked fine prior to updating the system day before yesterday.  I
>tracked the problem to configure script, beginning on line 1980:
>
>cat > $TMPC << EOF
>#include <lirc/lirc_client.h>
>int main( void ) { return 0; }
>EOF
>
>    if $cc $CFLAGS $ARCHFLAGS -o $TMPE $TMPC 2> /dev/null ; then
>        lirc="yes"
>    fi
>fi
>
>where it should create a file and place the header info in the file. 
>This is the point of failure, the file named in $TMPC is not being
>created, thus the feature fails.  Can anyone help me resolve this
>issue?  I  have worked through the script, and echoed the contents of
>$TMPC, finding it to contain "/tmp/ffmpeg-{Random Nbr}.c, but the file
>is not created.  Permissions do not seem to be of issue, its just the
>cat expression seems to do nothing.  Thanks!
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I found that if your are using lirc-0.8.0pre1 the include file 
/usr/local/include/lirc_client.h needs <sys/types.h> else configure will 
fail when it tests for lirc.