Tested a renamed scummvm-1.1.1 ebuild which compiles and plays games just fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Can confirm that. Tested on amd64 with 'Leisure Suit Larry 1 - VGA Version', as this game uses SCI (Sierra's Creative Interpreter) which is one of the new features on scummvm-1.2.0
*scummvm-1.2.0 (19 Oct 2010) 19 Oct 2010; Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> +scummvm-1.2.0.ebuild: version bump