Something

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2'
Making all in drivers
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2/drivers'
Making all in lirc_dev
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2/drivers/lirc_dev'
mv Makefile Makefile.automake
cp ../Makefile.kernel Makefile
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/build/ SUBDIRS=/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2/drivers/lirc_dev modules \
                KBUILD_VERBOSE=1
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
Makefile:499: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic/arch/x86_64/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic/arch/x86_64/Makefile'.  Stop.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-16-generic'
make[3]: *** [lirc_dev.o] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2/drivers/lirc_dev'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2/drivers'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sebastian/lirc-0.8.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2