It seems the ebuild is missing sdl_ttf dependency it stopped at cunfigure while looking for SDL_ttf, after i emerged it, lincity-ng emerged ok. emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1n i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1n i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r5, 2.3.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/ 3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr /share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts bluetooth cddb cdparanoia cjk crypt dga divx4linux dri dvd encode fbcon g if gnutls gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb isdnlog java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msql ncurses nls nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcsc-lite pdflib perl png pnp pppd python qt quicktime readline samba sdl smartcard sndfile spell sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xrandr xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
It is a dep. You have broken libraries probably because you didn't remerge things after upgrading a library. Looking at the config.log in the build directory should make it easy to tell what you need to remerge.