emerging lirc with LIRC_OPTS="--with-driver=any" failed. Currently I'm running 2.6.15-gentoo-r3, but my /usr/src/linux symlink is for -r5, which is already configured, compiled, installed and waiting for next reboot. checking for Linux kernel sources... /lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r3/build/ checking for which drivers can be installed on this system... checking for caraca_init in -lcaraca_client... no ... checking for sys/soundcard.h... yes configure: error: *** it is not possible to install the specified driver on this system !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/lirc-0.8.0_pre3/work/lirc-0.8.0pre3/config.log !!! ERROR: app-misc/lirc-0.8.0_pre3 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1894: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 941: Called src_compile lirc-0.8.0_pre3.ebuild, line 113: Called econf 'compile' '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-syslog=LOG_DAEMON' '--enable-sandboxed' '--with-kerneldir=//usr/src/2.6.15-gentoo-r5' '--with-moduledir=//lib/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r5/misc' '--disable-debug' '--with-X' !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://194.117.143.71" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/java-migration" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi adsl alsa apache2 apm arts auctex audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bigger-fonts bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib c++ cairo cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt css cups curl dba dhcp dnd doc dts dv dvd eds emboss encode escreen esd ethereal exif faad fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flatfile foomaticdb fortran ftp gcc-libffi gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hbci idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg kde latex leim libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors lzo lzw mad maildir mailwrapper mhash mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mng motif moznocompose mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mpm-worker mule mysql ncurses net network nls no-old-linux nptl nsplugin odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl operanom2 oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php pic pie plotutils png postgres povray procmail python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real recode sasl savedconfig sdl smime sndfile sockets sox spell sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tetex threads thunderbird tiff tokenizer transcode translator truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf xanim xchattext xemacs xine xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc fritzcapi_cards_fcpci kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 79981 [details] lirc-0.8.0pre3/config.log
emerging with driver hauppauge only worked.
I think, --with-driver=any is wrong, configure --help shows "--with-driver=all" perhaps only the comment is wrong here.
yes wrong comment, fixed in 0.8.0
