Topic: trying to compile lirc for Chumby classic

I'm trying to compile lirc 0.8.6 for my Chumby Classic (Guts Kit actually). I've setup a scratchbox environment and successfully compiled a number of things before, however compiling lirc fails saying:

/scratchbox/tools/bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory

I guess this is due to the fact that I'm mixing a scratchbox environment with a chumby kernel I cross compiled without scratchbox. But I'm really guessing here.

Anybody out there who has compiled lirc and could provide me some pointers on how to do this?

On a related note: any idea how I can turn off ttyS0 on a Chumby Classic? I believe I should edit /etc/inittab but / is read-only on a Classic.  I'm sure I read how to do it somewhere but I can't find the post or wiki page anymore.

Thanks in advance,

Nico