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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:54:59
Message-Id: 200804181350.22329.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure by Walter Dnes
1 On Friday 18 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > I don't know if this is relevant, but I just recovered from
3 > unmerging coreutils, which I promise never ever to do again<G>. Now
4 > that I have things working again, and revdep-rebuild says I'm OK. I
5 > went back and re-ran "emerge --ask --deep --update --world". It's
6 > dieing on the last item, namely alsa-plugins. Here is the message
7 > and I've also attached the config.log file as directed below...
8 >
9 > ====================================================================
10 > checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
11 > (cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into
12 > programs... immediate
13 > checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
14 > checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... no
15 > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
16 > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
17 > checking for ALSA... yes
18 > checking for snd_pcm_ioplug_create in -lasound... no
19 > configure: error: *** libasound has no external plugin SDK
20
21 libasound comes from package alsa-lib. So, what's the output from these
22 commands (assuming you have eix installed):
23
24 eix alsa-lib
25 eix alsa-plugins
26 emerge --info
27
28 I don't have alsa-plugins myself and have never needed it. Are you sure
29 you need it?
30
31 --
32 Alan McKinnon
33 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
34
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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-plugins emerge failure Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>