On June 9th Scons 0.98.5 was released. The most current one in portage tree is still 0.98.4. I'll attach an ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 160266 [details] ebuild for current version
Comment on attachment 160266 [details] ebuild for current version This is the same ebuild as 0.98.4
0.98.5 is in CVS. Thanks for reporting.