Wanting to try Firefox 4.0 , I tried to emerge Xulrunner 2.0 & ran into this problem : root:526 profile> emerge -pv xulrunner ... net-libs/xulrunner-2.0 [1.9.2.15] USE=3D"-alsa -crashreporter% -custom-optimization dbus -debug (-gnome%) -ipc (-java%*) -libnotify -startup-notification -system-sqlite -webm% -wi\ fi" root:527 profile> emerge xulrunner ... checking for alsa... Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `alsa.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'alsa' found configure: error: Need alsa for Ogg, Wave or WebM decoding on Linux. Disable with --disable-ogg --disable-wave --disable-webm. As cb seen, I have USE=3D"-alsa -webm". I tried adding 'alsa-lib' to 'package.provided' without any success. I don't have sound hardware or sound enabled in my kernel. There was a further sentence in parentheses "(If you are using Ubuntu ... )", which suggests an improperly digested upstream configure script. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 'emerge =xulrunner-2.0' 2. wait for it to fail as described above 3. Actual Results: emerge failed with message above. Expected Results: emerge should complete compiling & installing Xulrunner 2.0 See also bugs Mozilla 507869 & Gentoo 279981. Also see similar problem with KDE : KDE 190601 & Gentoo 265864 No user sb forced to install sound software if s/he doesn't have sound in his machine. I will add the result of 'emerge --info' separately.
Created attachment 267753 [details] result of 'emerge --info' output from 'emerge --info'
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 360163 ***
