--- /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass	2013-09-14 13:01:16.000000000 -0600
+++ eutils.eclass	2013-09-19 12:45:15.353758086 -0600
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@
 	fi
 }
 
+# Define EPREFIX and friends if needed
+if ! use prefix ; then
+	EPREFIX=
+	ED="${D}"
+	EROOT="${ROOT}"
+fi
+
 else
 
 ebeep() {
@@ -955,11 +962,11 @@
 # @DESCRIPTION:
 # Validate desktop entries using desktop-file-utils
 validate_desktop_entries() {
-	if [[ -x /usr/bin/desktop-file-validate ]] ; then
+	if [[ -x "${EPREFIX}"/usr/bin/desktop-file-validate ]] ; then
 		einfo "Checking desktop entry validity"
 		local directories=""
 		for d in /usr/share/applications $@ ; do
-			[[ -d ${D}${d} ]] && directories="${directories} ${D}${d}"
+			[[ -d ${ED}${d} ]] && directories="${directories} ${ED}${d}"
 		done
 		if [[ -n ${directories} ]] ; then
 			for FILE in $(find ${directories} -name "*\.desktop" \
@@ -967,7 +974,7 @@
 			do
 				local temp=$(desktop-file-validate ${FILE} | grep -v "warning:" | \
 								sed -e "s|error: ||" -e "s|${FILE}:|--|g" )
-				[[ -n $temp ]] && elog ${temp/--/${FILE/${D}/}:}
+				[[ -n $temp ]] && elog ${temp/--/${FILE/${ED}/}:}
 			done
 		fi
 		echo ""
@@ -1236,13 +1243,19 @@
 	# let portage worry about it
 	has preserve-libs ${FEATURES} && return 0
 
+	# cannot preserve-libs on aix yet.
+	[[ ${CHOST} == *-aix* ]] && {
+		einfo "Not preserving libs on AIX (yet), not implemented."
+		return 0
+	}
+
 	local lib dir
 	for lib in "$@" ; do
-		[[ -e ${ROOT}/${lib} ]] || continue
+		[[ -e ${EROOT}/${lib} ]] || continue
 		dir=${lib%/*}
 		dodir ${dir} || die "dodir ${dir} failed"
-		cp "${ROOT}"/${lib} "${D}"/${lib} || die "cp ${lib} failed"
-		touch "${D}"/${lib}
+		cp "${EROOT}"/${lib} "${ED}"/${lib} || die "cp ${lib} failed"
+		touch "${ED}"/${lib}
 	done
 }
 
@@ -1261,7 +1274,7 @@
 
 	local lib notice=0
 	for lib in "$@" ; do
-		[[ -e ${ROOT}/${lib} ]] || continue
+		[[ -e ${EROOT}/${lib} ]] || continue
 		if [[ ${notice} -eq 0 ]] ; then
 			notice=1
 			ewarn "Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system."
@@ -1320,8 +1333,8 @@
 	[[ -z ${PKG} ]] && die "Unable to resolve $1 to an installed package"
 	shift
 
-	local USEFILE=${ROOT}/var/db/pkg/${PKG}/USE
-	local IUSEFILE=${ROOT}/var/db/pkg/${PKG}/IUSE
+	local USEFILE="${EROOT}"/var/db/pkg/${PKG}/USE
+	local IUSEFILE="${EROOT}"/var/db/pkg/${PKG}/IUSE
 
 	# if the IUSE file doesn't exist, the read will error out, we need to handle
 	# this gracefully
@@ -1410,15 +1423,21 @@
 	if [[ -n ${libdir} ]] ; then
 		cat <<-EOF
 			if [ "\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+set}" = "set" ] ; then
-				export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${libdir}"
+				export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${EPREFIX}${libdir}"
+			else
+				export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${EPREFIX}${libdir}"
+			fi
+			# ultra-dirty, just do the same for Darwin
+			if [ "\${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH+set}" = "set" ] ; then
+				export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="\${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${EPERFIX}${libdir}"
 			else
-				export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${libdir}"
+				export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${EPREFIX}${libdir}"
 			fi
 		EOF
 	fi
 	# We don't want to quote ${bin} so that people can pass complex
 	# things as ${bin} ... "./someprog --args"
-	printf 'exec %s "$@"\n' "${bin}"
+	printf 'exec %s "$@"\n' "${bin/#\//${EPREFIX}\/}"
 	) > "${tmpwrapper}"
 	chmod go+rx "${tmpwrapper}"
 
@@ -1638,7 +1657,7 @@
 			einfo "Removing unnecessary ${f#${D%/}} (${reason})"
 			queue+=( "${f}" )
 		fi
-	done < <(find "${D}" -xtype f -name '*.la' -print0)
+	done < <(find "${ED}" -xtype f -name '*.la' -print0)
 
 	if [[ ${queue[@]} ]]; then
 		rm -f "${queue[@]}"