Emerging sox dies when alsa is set as a USE flag. Alsa packages installed: gentoo root # qpkg -I alsa* media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.0_rc1 * media-libs/alsa-oss-0.9.0_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc1-r5 * media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc1 * media-sound/alsa-xmms-0.9 * Error output from: emerge sox gcc -march=i686 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -DALSA_PLAYER -DOSS_PLAYER -DFAST_ULAW_CONVERSION -DFAST_ALAW_CONVERSION -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_GETOPT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_BYTESWAP_H=1 -DHAVE_GETOPT=1 -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -DHAVE_MEMMOVE=1 -DHAVE_RAND=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SOUNDCARD_H=1 -I. -c -o alsa.o alsa.c alsa.c:18: linux/asound.h: No such file or directory alsa.c: In function `st_alsastartread': alsa.c:137: `snd_pcm_channel_info_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:137: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once alsa.c:137: for each function it appears in.) alsa.c:137: parse error before `c_info' alsa.c:138: `snd_pcm_channel_params_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:140: `c_info' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:141: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_INFO' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:157: `c_params' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:161: `SND_PCM_START_DATA' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:162: `SND_PCM_STOP_STOP' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:169: `SND_PCM_MODE_BLOCK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:173: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_PARAMS' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:174: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_PREPARE' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:136: warning: `bps' might be used uninitialized in this function alsa.c: In function `st_alsastartwrite': alsa.c:188: `snd_pcm_channel_info_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:188: parse error before `p_info' alsa.c:189: `snd_pcm_channel_params_t' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:191: `p_info' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:192: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_INFO' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:207: `p_params' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:211: `SND_PCM_START_FULL' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:212: `SND_PCM_STOP_STOP' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:219: `SND_PCM_MODE_BLOCK' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:223: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_PARAMS' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:224: `SND_PCM_IOCTL_CHANNEL_PREPARE' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:187: warning: `bps' might be used uninitialized in this function alsa.c: In function `get_format': alsa.c:239: `SND_PCM_FMT_U8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:239: `SND_PCM_FMT_S8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:245: `SND_PCM_FMT_S16' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:258: `SND_PCM_SFMT_S8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:265: `SND_PCM_SFMT_U8' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:281: `SND_PCM_SFMT_S16_LE' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:284: `SND_PCM_FMT_U16' undeclared (first use in this function) alsa.c:288: `SND_PCM_SFMT_U16_LE' undeclared (first use in this function) make: *** [alsa.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: the make command did not complete successfully. !!! ("make") !!! Since this is a critical task, ebuild will be stopped. !!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/media-sound/sox/sox-12.17.1.ebuild .
This happens because it tries to find alsa-0.5.X headers. This probably means that sox does not support alsa 0.9.X. I've committed ebuild for the new version (12.17.3), in which I disabled alsa support. But at least it should compile and install for everyone. Thanks for the report.
