[MPlayer-users] bug in configure detecting lirc

[Alban Bedel]

Hi Brian J. Murrell,

on Fri, 7 Jun 2002 05:16:43 -0400 you wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:11:49AM +0200, Alban Bedel wrote:
> > 
> > MPlayer use the lirc api, thus doesn't open it self the device. You should send
> > this to the lirc team.
> 
> You did not read closely enough.  I am not talking about MPlayer using
> lirc, I am talking about configure (not) detecting that lirc support
> is available on the machine MPlayer is being built on.
> 
> There is a (naive) test in configure:
> 
>   if test -c /dev/lirc ; then
> ...
> 
> There is no guarantee that the lirc device is /dev/lirc, and in fact
> when using devfs it is in /dev/lirc/<driver> (i.e. /dev/lirc/serial)
> so thusly, lirc autodetection fails when using devfs.
Sorry, you'r rigth. Send a patch then as afaik no dev use devfs.
	Albeu