Not the best solution, but tested by getting the same files installed by changing the ebuild to: src_compile() { : } src_install() { #the lib itself still seems to need a DESTDIR definition scons ${MAKEOPTS} shared=1 DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "scons install failed" ... Seems to be confirmed by this suggested installation method (for Mac): https://gist.github.com/1506819 which just has: ./configure sudo python scons/scons.py install
Fixed in 2.0.1