Few months ago development of w3m was resumed on sourceforge. Developers seem quite active, but they didn't make a release yet. I've converted latest w3m ebuild into w3m-9999 live cvs ebuild. All patches are removed from ebuild (and merged upstream afaik) except for fix for newer Boehm-gc version (they bundle their own old version).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 336497 ***