Failure, same as referenced bug: aclocal: macro `_LT_DECL_SED' required but not defined aclocal: macro `_LT_FUNC_STRIPNAME_CNF' required but not defined Can be rectified by specifying "WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.9" in ebuild. Other versions of automake seem to fail (1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.11).
Fixed ad interim by using 1.9… but we really should get this to work with 1.10+ in the future, or decide to kill it.