diff --git a/x11-libs/libmatchbox/libmatchbox-1.9-r1.ebuild b/x11-libs/libmatchbox/libmatchbox-1.9-r1.ebuild
index 5863cca..439fd4f 100644
--- a/x11-libs/libmatchbox/libmatchbox-1.9-r1.ebuild
+++ b/x11-libs/libmatchbox/libmatchbox-1.9-r1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/libmatchbox/libmatchbox-1.9-r1.ebuild,v 1.5 2012/06/04 00:20:42 xmw Exp $
 
 EAPI=4
-inherit eutils libtool
+inherit eutils libtool flag-o-matic
 
 DESCRIPTION="The Matchbox Library."
 HOMEPAGE="http://matchbox-project.org/"
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ src_configure() {
 		$(use_enable test unit-tests)
 }
 
+src_compile() {
+	emake LDFLAGS="-lX11" || die "emake failed"
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	default
 	use doc && dohtml doc/html/*