to simplify solving of this (sandbox ?) issue : https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54214
Fixed in 1.4.6-r1 + 29 Dec 2012; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> apr-1.4.6-r1.ebuild: + Apply user patches, wrt bug #449048