During the upgrading to modular Xorg, i encounter this error: [...] i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -o syndaemon syndaemon.o -lm -L/usr/lib -lXext -lX11 /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i386-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [syndaemon] Error 1 Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1527: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 930: Called src_compile synaptics-0.14.4-r2.ebuild, line 37: Called die Portage 2.1_pre10-r5 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/grass60/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-O2 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.die.unipd.it/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo-sources/ http://gentoo.ngi.it ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo " LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm geos gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww livecd mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd proj python qt quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vesa" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
you're missing libXext for some reason -- I don't know why, exactly, because libXext is mentioned as a dependency.
closing due to inactivity.