I have no sound on my system and all sound related use flag are disabled. When I try to emerge gnome-panel-2.8.0.1 the emerge fail with this message : /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -mtune=athlon -ftracer -fweb -frename-registers -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o gnome-desktop-item-edit -export-dynamic gnome-desktop-item-edit.o menu-ditem.o panel-util.o xstuff.o panel-a11y.o -lSM -lICE -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgnome-desktop-2 -lgnomeui-2 -lSM -lICE -lstartup-notification-1 -lbonoboui-2 -lgnomecanvas-2 -lgnome-2 -lpopt -lart_lgpl_2 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lbonobo-2 -lgnomevfs-2 -lbonobo-activation -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -lpopt mkdir .libs libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libasound.la' make[3]: *** [gnome-desktop-item-edit] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1/work/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1/gnome-panel' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1/work/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1/gnome-panel' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1/work/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.8.0.1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 46, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure that alasa-lib is not merged. -alsa in use flag. 2. Emerge gnome-panel 3. Portage 2.0.51 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0, 2.6.9-rc2-nitro1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-rc2-nitro1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon -ftracer -fweb -frename-registers -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/mail/dspam /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=athlon -ftracer -fweb -frename-registers -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.fr.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X acpi apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mbox mmx mono motif mysql ncurses nls nptl pam pdflib perl png procmail python readline samba slang spell ssl svg tcltk tcpd truetype unicode usb x86 xml xml2 xscreensaver xv zlib"
i bet you had alsa and removed it later on.. some lib is still referencing to it... this has nothing todo with gnome-panel
grep "libasound" /usr/lib/*.la might give you some idea which one's you need to recompile.
