[Slackbuilds-users] gxine/lirc breaks Slackware

[Jeremy Hansen]

This list has never been to discuss things breaking on -current... only on
the latest stable release of Slackware. As has been said many times, you
use ponce's thread on LQ to report issues with scripts on -current.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/sbo-scripts-not-building-on-current-read-1st-post-pls-4175561999/

Jeremy

On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 6:26 PM David Chmelik <davidnchmelik at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have double-checked it's indeed in lirc-0.10.2-x86_64-1_SBo's
> lib/udev/rules.d/60-lirc.rules.  I've just removed & rebuilt lirc before
> testing.  I now realise that's only for Slackware-current, which (unless
> you can tell me where such issues should be discussed) may be beside the
> point, because it breaks for people using that and if it not fixed will
> break Slackware 15.1-stable.
>
> On 12/25/25 11:42 AM, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > That file was updated after the release of lirc used on SBo. It does
> > not contain that command.
> >
> > This is the version of the file included with the version on SBo.
> >
> >
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/5914451b1bc739713da22f12639ee6cf5ebcee08/tree/contrib/60-lirc.rules
> > <
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/5914451b1bc739713da22f12639ee6cf5ebcee08/tree/contrib/60-lirc.rules
> >
> >
> > David doesn't seem to be using the version of lirc on SBo and updated
> > it without telling the distro he updated it and then complained it was
> > broken. Go figure...
> >
> > I am the maintainer of lirc (only because it was unmaintained and it
> > was a hard dependency of kodi at the time). I haven't updated it due
> > to reports of v0.10 breaking a lot of people's setups.
> >
> > All that being said, I do not use lirc, so if someone else who does
> > use it wants to maintain it, I'm happy to relinquish maintainership.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 25, 2025, 2:30 PM fsLeg via SlackBuilds-users
> > <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org
> > <mailto:slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Here's your problem:
> >     <
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/master/tree/contrib/60-lirc.rules
> >     <
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/master/tree/contrib/60-lirc.rules>>
> >
> >     The rule has been present in lirc sources for the past 10 years,
> >     according to the commit at blame date. I guess it says a lot about
> >     how many Slackware users use it, that's why it went unnoticed for
> >     so long.
> >
> >     Try contacting the script's maintainer so they could patch the
> >     rule in the SlackBuild. If they don't respond in a week or two you
> >     can submit the necessary change yourself after getting admins'
> >     approval here.
> >
> >     On December 25, 2025 21:43:56 GMT+03:00, David Chmelik
> >     <dchmelik at gmail.com <mailto:dchmelik at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     >Whenever I connect certain types of devices, I get an error like
> >     "udevd[n]: failed to execute '/usr/bin/sh' '/usr/bin/sh -c
> >     '/usr/bin/setfacl -m g:lirc:rw /dev/bus/usb/001/004 2>/dev/null ||
> >     :'': No such file or directory" and the devices don't work.
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