Created attachment 592358 [details, diff] diff -u axel-2.15.ebuild axel-2.17.6.ebuild Have a working ebuild. Attached is a unified diff for the 2.17.6 ebuild relative to the 2.15 ebuild that's in the tree. Only changes needed were that it now needs autoconf-archive and txt2man to build/install.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 674840 ***