when I try to emerge beep-media-player i get the following error : ....................... checking GCONF_CFLAGS... -DORBIT2=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include checking GCONF_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lm -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -l gthread-2.0 -lglib-2.0 checking for esound >= 0.2... yes checking ESD_CFLAGS... checking ESD_LIBS... -lesd -laudiofile -lm checking for ogg >= 1.0 vorbis >= 1.0 vorbisfile >= 1.0... Package ogg was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `ogg.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'ogg' found configure: error: Cannot find libogg/libvorbis !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report: !!! /var/tmp/portage/beep-media-player-0.9.7-r2/work/bmp-0.9.7/config.log !!! ERROR: media-sound/beep-media-player-0.9.7-r2 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 485, Exitcode 0 !!! econf failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. emerging like this does the job : USE=-oggvorbis emerge beep-media-player Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge beep-media-player 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.10-rc3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-rc3 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.3 [2.3.3 (#1, Feb 14 2004, 22:04:15)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.7-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r3, 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" LANG="C" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/arh/myportage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm autofs avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr chroot crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd f77 fam fbcon firebird font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 javascript jpeg ldap libg++ libgda libwww ltsp mad mldonkeypango mmx mozilla moznomail mpeg mpeg4 ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl opie oss pam pcap pdflib perl pg-intdatetime pg-vacuumdelay png postgres propolice python quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l v4l2 wmf xface xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib zvbi" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Please tell the nice friendly sound people about your media-libs/libvorbis.
Could you try a revdep-rebuild? The libvorbis dependency in beep-media-player should drag libogg in as well, seeing that libogg is an RDEPEND of libvorbis.
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