I'm experiencing problems with volk when building on an amd64 Debian "testing". It started when volk was first introduced to the git tree and is also my experience with the 3.4 release. When I build I get the following:
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/stevie/SourceCode/gnuradio/volk/lib'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../lib -I/usr/include -I../include -I../gen/include -Dvolk_EXPORTS -fvisibility=hidden -DLV_MACHINE_SSE3_64 -DLV_MACHINE_GENERIC -DLV_MACHINE_SSE2_64 -DLV_MACHINE_SSE2_ONLY -DLV_MACHINE_SSE4_1_64 -DLV_MACHINE_SSSE3_64 -g -O2 -MT libvolk_la-volk.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libvolk_la-volk.Tpo -c -o libvolk_la-volk.lo `test -f '../gen/lib/volk.c' || echo './'`../gen/lib/volk.c
libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../lib -I/usr/include -I../include -I../gen/include -Dvolk_EXPORTS -fvisibility=hidden -DLV_MACHINE_SSE3_64 -DLV_MACHINE_GENERIC -DLV_MACHINE_SSE2_64 -DLV_MACHINE_SSE2_ONLY -DLV_MACHINE_SSE4_1_64 -DLV_MACHINE_SSSE3_64 -g -O2 -MT libvolk_la-volk.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libvolk_la-volk.Tpo -c ../gen/lib/volk.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libvolk_la-volk.o
In file included from ../gen/lib/volk.c:6:0:
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:20:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_x5_add_quad_16i_x4_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:25:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_branch_4_state_8_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:30:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_deinterleave_16i_x2_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:35:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_s32f_deinterleave_32f_x2_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:40:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_deinterleave_real_16i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:45:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_s32f_deinterleave_real_32f_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:50:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_deinterleave_real_8i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:55:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_magnitude_16i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:60:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16ic_s32f_magnitude_32f_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:65:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_s32f_convert_32f_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:75:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_convert_8i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:85:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_max_star_16i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:90:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_max_star_horizontal_16i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:95:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_permute_and_scalar_add_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:100:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16i_x4_quad_max_star_16i_a'
../gen/lib/volk_machines.h:105:5: error: unknown type name 'p_16u_byteswap_a'
...
and so on for a huge list of unknown types and then lots of errors later on because these types haven't been defined.