pidgin linking failure

  CCLD     pidgin
(...)/ld: gtkmedia.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XSetErrorHandler'
(...)/ld: note: 'XSetErrorHandler' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status