--- protobuf-2.3.0.ebuild.orig	2010-05-15 14:00:43.000000000 +0200
+++ protobuf-2.3.0.ebuild	2010-05-15 14:00:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 JAVA_PKG_IUSE="source"
 PYTHON_DEPEND="python? 2"
 
-inherit eutils distutils python java-pkg-opt-2 elisp-common
+inherit autotools eutils distutils python java-pkg-opt-2 elisp-common
 
 DESCRIPTION="Google's Protocol Buffers -- an efficient method of encoding structured data"
 HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/"
@@ -28,10 +28,12 @@
 DISTUTILS_SRC_TEST="setup.py"
 
 src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-asneeded.patch
 	use python && {
 		python_convert_shebangs -r 2 .
 		distutils_src_prepare
 	}
+	eautoreconf
 }
 
 src_compile() {