The alsa-utils ebuild does not state any dependency on libsamplerate. If the latter is installed, then alsa-utils (rather, alsaloop, to be exact) links against it: $ readelf -d /usr/bin/alsaloop Dynamic section at offset 0x108d0 contains 25 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libsamplerate.so.0] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libasound.so.2] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] [...] Thus, if libsamplerate is uninstalled, the following error occurs: $ alsaloop alsaloop: error while loading shared libraries: libsamplerate.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory If alsa-utils is being installed while libsamplerate is not present, alsaloop tells me the following: $ alsaloop No libsamplerate support. So it seems rather useless without it, actually. I'd like the ability to hide this behind the "minimal" USE flag, but then, I don't know how maintainable this is. Thanks.
A small correction: alsaloop isn't useless without libsamplerate, just less capable.
Confirming : > checking for alsa/mixer.h... yes > checking for alsa/rawmidi.h... yes > checking for alsa/seq.h... yes > checking for samplerate.h... yes When reading the configure.in we can find : > AC_CHECK_HEADERS([samplerate.h], [have_samplerate="yes"], > [have_samplerate="no"], [#include <samplerate.h>]) > > AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_SAMPLERATE, test "$have_samplerate" = "yes") Thus the dependency is not optional, there's no way to disable it, please add it to the DEPEND list.
+*alsa-utils-1.0.25 (03 Feb 2012) + + 03 Feb 2012; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +alsa-utils-1.0.25.ebuild, + +files/alsa-utils-1.0.25-separate-usr-var-fs.patch: + Version bump. Add missed libsamplerate dependency, closes bug #383263 by + Hans. Patch by Martin van Gagern silences warnings when using a separate /usr + or /var partition, closes bug #384375. Upstream changes fix build breakage + when SED is set in the environment, closes bug #366587 by Nils Kneuper. + Automatic module loading & unloading is unsupported and may be removed soon.
