Bugzilla Bug 24090

while emerging gnome on ~x86, at-spi-1.1.9 failed with the following output:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
cannot find -lspi 
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status 
make[2]: *** [libatk-bridge.la] Error 1 
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/at-spi-1.1.9/work/at-spi-
1.1.9/atk-bridge' 
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/at-spi-1.1.9/work/at-spi-1.1.9' 
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 

!!! ERROR: gnome-extra/at-spi-1.1.9 failed. 
!!! Function gnome2_src_compile, Line 41, Exitcode 2 
!!! compile failure 

seems to be a self dependency problem because emerging at-spi-1.1.8 and then 
upgrading to 1.1.9 worked fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. build a ~x86 from scratch
2. emerge xfree
3. emerge gnome

can you please attach a full build log and also emerge info ? 

thats alright. you don't have to post that now. i've tracked down the problem.
thanks for your report.