Hi, currently I get the following: >>> Emerging (4 of 56) media-libs/libfishsound-0.9.1 to / * libfishsound-0.9.1.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking libfishsound-0.9.1.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking libfishsound-0.9.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libfishsound-0.9.1/work >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libfishsound-0.9.1/work/libfishsound-0.9.1 ... * econf: updating libfishsound-0.9.1/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating libfishsound-0.9.1/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 --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu [...] checking for vorbis_info_init in -lvorbis... yes checking vorbis/codec.h usability... yes checking vorbis/codec.h presence... yes checking for vorbis/codec.h... yes checking for vorbis_encode_init in -lvorbisenc... yes checking vorbis/vorbisenc.h usability... yes checking vorbis/vorbisenc.h presence... yes checking for vorbis/vorbisenc.h... 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 SPEEX... yes checking for speex_decode_int in -lspeex... yes checking for FLAC__stream_decoder_init in -lFLAC... no checking for OGGZ... yes checking for SNDFILE... yes configure: creating ./config.status [...] libfishsound 0.9.1: Automatic configuration OK. General configuration: Experimental code: ........... no Decoding support: ............ yes Encoding support: ............ yes Library configuration (./src/libfishsound): FLAC support: ................ no Speex support: ............... yes (1.1.x) Vorbis support: .............. yes [...] # emerge -pv libfishsound These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-libs/libfishsound-0.9.1 USE="vorbis -doc" 0 kB # I think there should be a "flac" USE flag introduced to enable lossless compression of soundfiles. Or the configure at least fixed to detect my installed media-libs/flac-1.2.1-r2, media-sound/flac123-0.0.11. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.5_rc2 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.24.3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24.3 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:30:03 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r4, 2.4.4-r9, 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/torque /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en cs cz" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip R X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib ace acl acpi alsa amr amrnb amrwb apache2 audacious audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb blas boost bzip2 cairo cblas cddb cdparanoia cdr clamav cli colordiff compress cpio cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx dbus dga dia directfb djbfft dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss emf enblend encode enscript exif expat fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fpx ftp gcj gd gdbm ggi gif gimp gimpprint glibc-compat20 glibc-omitfp glitz glut gmp gnuplot gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gsl gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hdf hdf5 i8x0 icc iconv icu id3 ieee1394 ifc imagemagick imlib inifile innodb isdnlog ithreads jack java javascript jbig jikes jpeg jpeg2k kdtree kerberos lame lapack lcms leim libcaca libedit libwww live lzo lzw mad maildir matroska mhash midi mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmap mmx mng mod_python modperl modplug motif mozilla moznoirc mp2 mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mpi_njtree mplayer mudflap mule musepack mxdatetime mysql mysqli ncurses netcdf netpbm network nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs numeric ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcmcia pcntl pcre pdf perl plotutils plugin png pnm postproc postscript ppds pppd procmail pymol python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar raw readline real recode reflection reiserfs rpm rtc samba sasl scanner scp seamonkey server session sftp sift slp smime sndfile soap sockets spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl subtitles subversion svg svgz sysfs sysvipc t1lib tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk transcode truetype unicode urandom usb userlocales uuencode v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xcb xcf xfs xft xinetd xml xorg xpm xprint xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yv12 zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config mem_cache mime mime_magic rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias negotiation" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs cz" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
hmm its not only about configure checks neither a lack of useflag, that's the whole flac support in libfishsound that uses a 2 years old api of flac pre 1.1.3. Any sane system should use the new api and flac version. Please see with upstream for porting this to the new api.