the bug 4488 respawned - bug is marked resolved - patch available there
Hmmmm...OK...I went ahead and added that option to the ebuild since it doesn't seem to do any harm for me. It was working fine for me before as well, but I guess that's because I don't have svgalib in my USE line. Go ahead and try out this ebuild and see how it goes for you. Thanks for the bug report.