The usual location for documentation is /usr/share/doc/${PF} instead, and almost every other package install there. The attached patch fixes this by using dodoc to install survey.txt and passing --with-docdir at econf run. HTH, Diego
Created attachment 120133 [details, diff] Ebuild patch
Well, after almost an year, I fixed this myself, sorry for overstepping.
econf: updating /var/tmp/paludis/sys-devel-distcc-2.18.3-r12/work/distcc-2.18.3/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess econf: updating /var/tmp/paludis/sys-devel-distcc-2.18.3-r12/work/distcc-2.18.3/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --without-included-popt --docdir=/usr/share/doc/distcc-2.18.3-r12 --disable-avahi --without-gnome --with-gtk --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/usr/share/doc/distcc-2.18.3-r12 Try `./configure --help' for more information. !!! ERROR in sys-devel/distcc-2.18.3-r12: !!! In econf at line 1879 !!! econf failed