I had a problem when upgrading from xorg-server 1.3 (which had been stable in Gentoo for a very long time) to 1.5.3 which recently went stable. The emerge would run for some time until it aborted and an examination in the build log showed:

connection.c: In function ‘AuthAudit’:
connection.c:606: error: invalid initializer

The solution was found in this bug (263274). It’s this simple:

Prior to emerging xorg-server (oh BTW you need to emerge –unmerge xorg-server-1.3.x first because of blockers)

# mv /usr/bin/dtrace /usr/bin/dtrace.orig

The continue with the emerge as normal. Hope they fix this bug in configure but it seems to have been happening for some time now.

After you are done move dtrace back to it’s proper file name.

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