I've been working for the last several days on adding lirc support directally into 'madplay' and am almost done, but I have a few questions that would make the finishing touches a lot easier.
Question:
I don't know anything about autoconf or automake or what a m4 macro is. I have manually edited the Makefile to support my builds, but i'm trying for correct implementation. The lirc web site says that only the following lines would be neded to add to the configuration process (files) to check for support.
here is the site for refereence. http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#library
dnl Check for LIRC client support dnl This really is not worth making a separate file for it.
have_lirc=yes AC_REQUIRE_CPP AC_CHECK_LIB(lirc_client,lirc_init, AC_CHECK_HEADER(lirc/lirc_client.h,true,have_lirc=no),have_lirc=no)
if test "$have_lirc" = "yes"; then dnl AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIRC); true; else AC_MSG_ERROR([*** LIRC client support not available ***]); fi
Can someone plese tell me where and in which file to add these lines? Or just forward to me directally a copy of the files in a fixed state.
I'm not sure that this is all that is actually needed I did have to add this line to the Makefile to correctly link the program
LDFLAGS += /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so
Hope this helps, and sorry I really don't understand automake and conf.