xorg-x11 will not emerge successfly on vanilla-sources *in my case 2.6.11.11 you need to emerge sys-devel/flex 1st. this is discossed at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-295915-highlight-.html and i searched the forum, many people looks like having exact same problem. I think its best to have sys-devel/flex as xorg-x11 dependencies. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.running under vanilla-sources 2.emerge xorg-x11 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11.11 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.11 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/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/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/Gentoo/ http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac alsa avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cdda cdio cjk crypt cups curl dts dvd encode fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 httpd imlib jpeg live lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl stream tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vcd vlm vorbis wxgtk1 wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87613 ***