libxcb-xlib.la failures when building X11 with libxcb-1.2

[Halim Issa]

On Tuesday 17. March 2009 15.16.57 Simon Thum wrote:
> Halim Issa wrote:
> > grep: /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory
> > /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la: No such file or directory
> > libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.la' is not a valid libtool archive
> Possibly, this is biting you:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158476

Certainly looks that way, even though I'm not on Gentoo.. 

Thanks much for answering.

Would I be correct to assume that the best way to work around this is to downgrade while waiting for these issues to stabilize upstream in the next few months?