Install Handbrake on Gentoo

"HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows."

Unfortunately, there is no ebuild for it in portage, and building it by hand is kind of a pain. Fortunately, it is easy enough to add a portage overlay to get it installed.

Most of the credit for this needs to go to "newtonian" who posted an initial method at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-868401-start-0.html. There are some modifications needed in order to make it work with a current gentoo install, though.

1. Create a new portage overlay directory for handbrake
   

   mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/

2. If /usr/local/portage is not already part of your overlay path, add it to make.conf
   

   echo 'PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage' >> /etc/make.conf

3. Create a new ebuild file at /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/handbrake-9999.ebuild with the following contents
   

   # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
   # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
   # $Header: $
   
   EAPI="2"
   ESVN_REPO_URI="svn://svn.handbrake.fr/HandBrake/trunk"
   
   PYTHON_DEPEND="2"
   
   inherit subversion gnome2-utils python
   
   DESCRIPTION="Open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter."
   HOMEPAGE="http://handbrake.fr/"
   
   LICENSE="GPL-2"
   SLOT="0"
   KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
   
   IUSE="css gtk"
   RDEPEND="css? ( media-libs/libdvdcss )
   	     gtk? (	>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.8
        			dev-libs/glib
   	     		dev-libs/dbus-glib
        			x11-libs/libnotify
   	     		media-libs/gstreamer
   		     	media-libs/gst-plugins-base
                           media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta
                           dev-util/intltool
        			>=sys-fs/udev-171-r8
                           net-libs/webkit-gtk:2
   	     )"
   DEPEND="=sys-devel/automake-1.11*
           app-arch/bzip2
           sys-libs/zlib
       	dev-lang/yasm
           dev-libs/fribidi
   	    >=dev-lang/python-2.4.6
   	    || ( >=net-misc/wget-1.11.4 >=net-misc/curl-7.19.4 ) 
   	    $RDEPEND"
   
   src_configure() {
   	./configure $(use_enable gtk) --disable-gtk-update || die "configure failed"
   }
   
   src_compile() {
   	WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.11" make -C build || die "failed compiling ${PN}"
   }
   
   src_install() {
   	WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.11" make -C build DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "failed installing ${PN}"
   }
   
   pkg_setup() {
   	python_set_active_version 2
   	python_pkg_setup
   }
   
   pkg_preinst() {
   	gnome2_icon_savelist
   }
   
   pkg_postinst() {
   	gnome2_icon_cache_update
   }
   
   pkg_postrm() {
   	gnome2_icon_cache_update
   }

4. Create the ebuild manifest
   

   cd /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake
   ebuild handbrake-9999.ebuild digest

5. Emerge handbrake
   

   emerge -av handbrake