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As you know I am new to Gentoo, and I am experimenting some problems which I may call "Newbie problems" one of them was this.

When I tried to update my Gentoo Operating System, and I run.

sudo emerge --sync

And then,

sudo emerge --update --newuse --deep world

I got this problem:

 Failed to emerge media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a, Log file:

>>>  '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a/temp/build.log'

 * Messages for package media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a:

 *
 * ERROR: media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 3951:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       emake LDFLAGS="$(raw-ldflags)" HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)"
CC="$(tc-getCC)" || die "Make Failed";
 *  The die message:
 *   Make Failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.18a/temp/environment'.
 *

Well, the problem just go away as soon as I recompile the new kernel sources that was downloaded in a prior intend to update the system.

I went from kernel 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 to 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and then I was able to run

sudo emerge alsa-driver

Actually I do not know the why was this, but I think it was because the newer version of alsa-driver needed the newer version of kernel to properly work.

Hope this may help somebody.