We are going to deprecate elisp-comp, see bug 235442, so elisp-compile should be used instead. Patch will follow.
Created attachment 163871 [details, diff] Proposed change for monotone-0.40.ebuild Patch for 0.40, but please apply it to 0.39 as well. I think there's no need for a revbump since the installed files will be identical (except for comment changes in their header).
changed, thanks Ulrich
Thank you for your quick response. :-)