See http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Error_messages#MissingOpenSSL Update ebuild attached.
Created attachment 206072 [details] Updated ebuild with check for +ssl on erlang
Assuming you are right, I assign this bug to the maintainer. Nevertheless please attach any sort of failure that proofes this error on gentoo systems.
I think we can just bump to EAPI=2 and then RDEPEND on erlang[ssl]? Seems easier.
+ 09 Oct 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> couchdb-0.9.1.ebuild: + Add usedep for erlang +ssl, fixes #287744 Confirmed and fixed.