On Friday 18 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > I don't know if this is relevant, but I just recovered from > unmerging coreutils, which I promise never ever to do again<G>. Now > that I have things working again, and revdep-rebuild says I'm OK. I > went back and re-ran "emerge --ask --deep --update --world". It's > dieing on the last item, namely alsa-plugins. Here is the message > and I've also attached the config.log file as directed below... > > ==================================================================== > checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so > (cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into > programs... immediate > checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes > checking for ALSA... yes > checking for snd_pcm_ioplug_create in -lasound... no > configure: error: *** libasound has no external plugin SDK
libasound comes from package alsa-lib. So, what's the output from these commands (assuming you have eix installed): eix alsa-lib eix alsa-plugins emerge --info I don't have alsa-plugins myself and have never needed it. Are you sure you need it? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
