As explained in bug #130851, make-3.81 changed the way it parses multilines command arguments. This breaks a sed command in in src/gnome/Makefile. The attached patch fixes that. I've also sent it upstream.
Created attachment 85906 [details, diff] files/verbiste-0.1.14-multiline-sed.patch
Created attachment 85907 [details, diff] verbiste-0.1.14-ebuild.patch change on src_unpack
in CVS since this morning, forgot to update the bug