--- couchdb-1.2.1.ebuild
+++ couchdb-1.2.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI="2"
 
-inherit eutils multilib user
+inherit eutils multilib pax-utils user
 
 DESCRIPTION="Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database."
 HOMEPAGE="http://couchdb.apache.org/"
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@
 	sed -e "s#localdocdir = /usr/share/doc/couchdb#localdocdir = /usr/share/doc/${PF}#" -i Makefile || die "sed failed"
 }
 
+src_compile() {
+	emake
+
+	# bug 442616
+	pax-mark mr src/couchdb/priv/couchjs
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed"