--- nitrogen-1.4.ebuild.old	2008-12-03 20:23:01.000000000 +0100
+++ nitrogen-1.4.ebuild	2008-12-03 20:24:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-misc/nitrogen/nitrogen-1.4.ebuild,v 1.1 2008/08/11 13:13:18 omp Exp $
 
+inherit eutils autotools
+
 DESCRIPTION="GTK+ background browser and setter for X."
 HOMEPAGE="http://projects.l3ib.org/nitrogen/"
 SRC_URI="http://projects.l3ib.org/${PN}/files/${P}.tar.gz"
@@ -18,6 +20,14 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
 	dev-util/pkgconfig
 	xinerama? ( x11-proto/xineramaproto )"
 
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/Makefile-as-needed.patch
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
 src_compile() {
 	econf $(use_enable xinerama) || die "econf failed"
 	emake || die "emake failed"