Chris Just tell portage to enable overlays with openldap:
/etc/portage/package.use ...net-nds/openldap overlays Now, when you emerge openldap, you should get overlays enabled. emerge -pv openldap These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.21-r1 +berkdb +crypt -debug +gdbm +ipv6 -kerberos -minimal +odbc +overlays +perl +readline -samba -sasl (-selinux) -slp +ssl +tcpd 0 kB leads to this (see last line): ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --enable-static --enable-shared --libexecdir=/usr/lib/openldap --enable-slapd --enable-slurpd --enable-ldbm --enable-bdb --with-ldbm-api=berkeley --enable-hdb=mod --enable-passwd=mod --enable-phonetic=mod --enable-dnssrv=mod --enable-ldap --enable-meta=mod --enable-monitor=mod --enable-null=mod --enable-shell=mod --enable-perl=mod --enable-sql=mod --enable-crypt --disable-slp --enable-rewrite --enable-rlookups --enable-aci --enable-modules --enable-cleartext --enable-slapi --without-lmpasswd --enable-dyngroup --enable-proxycache --enable-syslog --enable-dynamic --enable-local --enable-proctitle --enable-ipv6 --enable-readline --without-cyrus-sasl --disable-spasswd --enable-wrappers --with-tls --enable-overlays -- mike
