right now 9999 build just calls emake which fails with no makefile. It should inherit autotools to call eautoreconf -fi, econf, then emake. i3 release.sh builds like this: autoreconf -fi mkdir build (cd build && ../configure && make dist-bzip2 -j8) cp build/i3-${RELEASE_VERSION}.tar.bz2 .
commit 902086ad80dfbce0c3ae64b35a6047424dd51a4c Author: Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@gentoo.org> Date: Wed Nov 9 17:20:35 2016 -0600 x11-wm/i3: update live ebuild, fixes #598976 Reported-by: arya <arya@bfam.tv> Package-Manager: portage-2.2.28