[mythtv-users] Trouble building lirc from source to support IguanaWorks iguanaIR USB IR xcvr

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Thu Apr 30 15:18:24 UTC 2015


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom-
>
> May not need that, but would appreciate a reality check before I proceed.
>
> Based on what you had previously posted, I went and ran "file" on the two
> iguanaIR library files I could find in /usr/lib/ --
> /usr/lib/iguanaIR/libusb.so and /usr/lib/libiguanaIR.so and found that they
> were both i386 binaries.
>
> Looking at the repo file I created,
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iguanaworks.list, I found that I had only added the
> source and binary-i386 repositories from IguanaWorks.  I uninstalled the
> iguanaIR package, switched to the binary-amd64 repository, ran "apt-get
> update", and then re-installed the iguanaIR package.  Now when I run file
> on the /usr/lib/* iguanaIR libraries, they get reported as 64-bit x86-64
> versions.  I then re-ran the lirc build and succeeded in producing four
> *lirc*.deb packages, so I think I'm good to install the
> lirc_0.9.0-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb and lirc-x_0.9.0-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb packages.
>
> My concern is that the names include amd64, while I am running on an Intel
> CPU.  Is this an issue/conflict?
>
>
The naming convention of amd64 is...unfortunate. amd64 and x86-64 are the
same thing, so you should be fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64

Tom
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