Lirc sources were silently updated with same version number. And now patches are not compatible anymore. Will be fixed.
In the mean time you can change URL in file packages/sysutils/lirc/package.mk to
PKG_URL="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lirc/files/LIRC/$PKG_VERSION/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"Step B is not need to execute - final image will be build at the end.
Step C is not needed - touchscreen addon is available from Libreelec kodi repository.
Some parts in step D) are already enabled.
Maybe official image would work just fine with touchcreens and no need to build it manually? Only addon must be installed.
New forum is on the way which will fix such issues.
Are you saying you download same sources every day?
Wait few days and the issue will be fixed.
One thing should be mentioned that LibreELEC USB-SD Creator should not be running when some other program is using the device. This is because Creator is refreshing devices every few seconds.
Install java, install JDownloader, add start to autoexec.sh or make systemd script. This addon was already done years back for openelec. What a great times...
Java on x86 is easy to install: How to make OpenELEC perfect with p2p-stream and XBMCtorrent plus manual java install | raznestvari
But use LibreELEC instead 
Where is the best place to post a little How-To for this type of touchscreen?
On wiki.
That's good to hear.
I think I need to remember that not all waveshare displays are stupid 
Now I can go to sleep.
I think I missed this /dev/input/event2.
In this case don't use ts_env.sh-waveshare but instead ts_env.sh-sample and copy it to ts_env.sh. Inside change line TOUCHSCREEN_NAME which needs to be
TOUCHSCREEN_NAME="BYZHYYZHY By ZH851"
As you can see BYZHYYZHY By ZH851 is device name from evtest.
Also don't use ts.conf-waveshare file but instead ts.conf-generic and copy it to ts.conf.
Maybe after reboot calibration from kodi will just work. And everything else.
Sorry but I'm out of ideas. Like I wrote I don't have this two devices and managed to run only with the help of few users.
Seems you will need to figure out this yourself.
Post the same output as in post above (number #144).
With evtest you can see that you need to use PRODUCT_PID=0005.
Run again this 2 commands and post what you get (again).
systemctl stop kodi
ts_calibrate.shAfter kodi is stopped you can run evtest again and only press short time on top/left, top/right, bottom/right, bottom/left and in center. Maybe I see how this screen works from the output.
If you have time you can come to irc so we can talk more directly.
This addon can be installed from repository or it can be included directly in image (I'm doing this for my images). That's why there is a check if addon exists in /usr. This part is ok.
But what is not ok is that touchscreen device is not found. You can see empty touchscreen device:. Seems you don't use correct vid or pid.
Can you run this commands and post al 3 url's you get?
pastebinit /sys/class/hidraw/hidraw*/device/uevent
dmesg | pastebinit
lsusb -vv | pastebinitI forgot how waveshare screens work...
Let's start again:
1.) do you see background image when you try to calibrate from kodi?
2.) does kodi itself displays over whole screen?
3.) can you calibrate from console when run this?
systemctl stop kodi
ts_calibrate.sh
systemctl start kodi
I don't have rpi and/or waveshare display and newer had direct contact with it.
Calibration mus be done from kodi.
If you want to run from console then use ts_calibrate command.
And what is your display resolution?