Bzflag 1.7g2 is out it has a code fixes and a redesign of the build process. The build process is more standardized.
Created attachment 13565 [details] An ebuild I slapped together for bzflag-1.7g2 An ebuild I slapped together for bzflag-1.7g2
added to portage, thanks for the ebuild :) http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-games/bzflag/bzflag-1.7.7.1.ebuild?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup