pena media-sound # emerge alsa-utils Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) alsa-utils-1.0.8.tar.bz2 >>> Checking alsa-utils-1.0.8.tar.bz2's mtime... >>> WORKDIR is up-to-date, keeping... * econf: updating alsa-utils-1.0.8/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating alsa-utils-1.0.8/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used. checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/gmsgfmt checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc3 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/sh: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory done checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes checking whether to use NLS... yes checking where the gettext function comes from... libc checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking for ALSA CFLAGS... checking for ALSA LDFLAGS... -lasound -lm -ldl -lpthread checking for libasound headers version >= 1.0.8... not present. configure: error: Sufficiently new version of libasound not found. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/alsa-utils-1.0.8/work/alsa-utils-1.0.8/config.log !!! ERROR: media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.8 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge alsa-utils with <alsa-lib-1.0.8 I have alsa-lib-1.0.7
thanks for the report, fixed.
*** Bug 79229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***