I am using RC5 of aalib under redhat and that works fine. I don't have
flac installed but the GStreamer developers using 1.0.3 under debian
says it works fine there. Sure this isn't gentoo problems?

Please provide usable debug output.  What fails exactly, maybe output
of config.log, whatever that might help.

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.4.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -I../../gst-libs
-Wall -Werror -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -c
gstflacenc.c -MT libgstflac_la-gstflacenc.lo -MD -MP -MF
.deps/libgstflac_la-gstflacenc.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o
libgstflac_la-gstflacenc.lo
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
gstflacenc.c:59: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`FLAC__StreamMetaData'
gstflacenc.c:59: parse error before '*' token
gstflacenc.c:173: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`FLAC__StreamMetaData'
gstflacenc.c:173: parse error before '*' token
gstflacenc.c: In function `gst_flacenc_metadata_callback':
gstflacenc.c:178: `client_data' undeclared (first use in this function)
gstflacenc.c:178: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gstflacenc.c:178: for each function it appears in.)
gstflacenc.c:184: `metadata' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [libgstflac_la-gstflacenc.lo] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/reiser/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.0-r2/work/gst-plugins-0.4.0/ext/flac'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/reiser/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.0-r2/work/gst-plugins-0.4.0/ext'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/reiser/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.0-r2/work/gst-plugins-0.4.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Hope this is enough

Works here (gstreaner 0.4.1, Gentoo 1.4RC1). I don't have aalib,
because it causes some problems.

make[3]: Entering directory
`/mnt/build/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.1/work/gst-plugins-0.4.1/ext/aalib'
source='gstaasink.c' object='libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.lo' libtool=yes \
depfile='.deps/libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.Plo'
tmpdepfile='.deps/libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.TPlo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../../depcomp \
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.4.1
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/libxml2   -g -I../../gst-libs -Wall -Werror
-I/usr/include -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -c
-o libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.lo `test -f 'gstaasink.c' || echo
'./'`gstaasink.c
i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.4.1 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -I../../gst-libs
-Wall -Werror -I/usr/include -march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe
-fomit-frame-pointer -c gstaasink.c -MT libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.lo
-MD -MP -MF .deps/libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.TPlo  -fPIC -DPIC -o
libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.lo
cc1: changing search order for system directory "/usr/include"
cc1:   as it has already been specified as a non-system directory
make[3]: *** [libgstaasink_la-gstaasink.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/build/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.1/work/gst-plugins-0.4.1/ext/aalib'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/build/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.1/work/gst-plugins-0.4.1/ext'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/mnt/build/portage/gst-plugins-0.4.1/work/gst-plugins-0.4.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2



gstreamer 0.4.1 
gst-plugins 0.4.1
aalib 1.4_rc4

the aalib problem is a gcc problem, it's not a problem in the release
because that has -Werror disabled.

The FLAC problem should be fixed in the release as well, can you try it ?

nothing heard. assume fixed. closing