New version 2.4.5 available at http://gabedit.sourceforge.net/
Copy/paste gabedit-2.4.3 to gabedit-2.4.5.ebuild works for me. Compiles smooth, runs fine.
Thanks for the report. Expect it in a week or so, as I am currently not anywhere near a gentoo box.
+*gabedit-2.4.5 (29 Nov 2012) + + 29 Nov 2012; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> +gabedit-2.4.5.ebuild: + Version Bump, #444155 +