Trying to build libquicktime-1.1.3 fails like this : bfreetype.so /usr/lib/libexpat.so /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so ../../src/.libs/libquicktime.so -lpthread -lm -lz -ldl /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lxcb-xlib collect2: ld returned 1 exit status It should have built. emerge --info ric ric # emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2400+-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:30:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amarok artworkextra audiofile berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cupsddk dba dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evdev evo exif extras fam fbcon fftw firefox flac flash fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glib gnome gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq imagemagick imap insecure-savers ipv6 isdnlog jabber jpeg kde ldap libgda libnotify mad maildir mbox mikmod mime ming mjpeg mmx mono motif mouse moviepack mozcalendar mozsvg mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mudflap mysql nas nautilus ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp pam panel-plugin pcre pdf perl php png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session shout skins slang slp spell spl sse sse-filters ssl startup-notification svg swat sysfs tcpd tga thunar thunar-vfs tiff toolbar truetype unicode usb userlocales utempter v4l videos vidix vorbis webkit win32codecs wmf wordperfect wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xchat xchatdccserver xface xine xinerama xml xmlrpc xorg xosd xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Any help solving will be appreciated. Richard Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge --sync 2.emerge libquicktime 3.fails Actual Results: fails everytime Expected Results: should have emerged cleanly.
Read the guide and some of the posts on the forum. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml