Presumably, gxine isn't even reporting that lirc_init failed. Minimal fix: add liblircclient-dev to the build-deps. It's probably a good idea to update m4/lirc.m4 (from /usr/share/aclocal/lirc.m4) and aclocal.m4 too.
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