Re: LIRC on Mac via MacPorts - no /dev/lirc0

> On Sep 24, 2019, at 4:44 AM, Bengt Martensson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> My new issue is with IrSend - even though I've set the correct LIRC path environment variable to /var/run/lirc/lircd, it seems to want to default to /opt/local/var/run/lirc/lircd
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> *That* is a cringeworthy choice, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard . Who built your Lirc distro? Having said that, the option for using another path is --output <path> .
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I’m way late to this conversation, but…

I’m the port maintainer for Lirc on MacPorts.  I’m well aware that we’re not using the ‘standard’ location.  That’s because, on Mac OS, the user may have (or will) use other methods to install software which leads to files in ‘standard’ locations getting clobbered and user’s getting frustrated.  For many years, MacPorts has avoided this problem by assuming that we own the MacPorts install prefix (default: “/opt/local”) and we prepend that to the standard locations.  So /var/run/lirc/lircd becomes /opt/local/var/run/lirc/lircd.  

Craig