hidapi fails to emerge because of a missing "-lpthread". The problem is known upstream [2] and a patch already exists [1]. [1] https://github.com/swt2c/hidapi/commit/7885aa76c86ab2cf7a06600506680d1976f8971f [2] https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/pull/163 Reproducible: Always
0.8.0_rc1_p20140719 (with this fix) is now available in the bitcoin overlay.
this is now in the tree. reopen if this is sitll a problem.