Just reporting back that I got it working. In between upgrades I must have removed the lirc header files and so configure didn't enable lirc support. I didn't catch this before because I have an automatic update script and so I never noticed the output of configure--though now I realize that's probably one of the first things I should have checked. But now with them installed all is running smoothly. Thanks for the help.
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