As per the summary. Ebuild needs some tweex, so I'll attach a patch. Also, this bug should close bug 263542 and bug 262949.
Created attachment 186709 [details, diff] conky-1.7.0_rc2.ebuild.patch
Same patch, just rename 1.7.0_rc2 to 1.7.0 plz.
Make that 1.7.1.1 - works fine with the patched ebuild.
conky-1.7.1.1 already added to the tree.