--- /dev/null
+It is not specified whether the python sitedir is located within the native
+ABI's $libdir folder. This breaks Gentoo's py3.7 and 3.8 installations.
+
+--- a/Makefile.in
++++ b/Makefile.in
+@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@
+ ln -sf $(LIBNEWTSH) $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir)/$(LIBNEWTSONAME)
+ [ -n "$(WHIPTCLSO)" ] && install -m 755 whiptcl.$(SOEXT) $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir) || :
+ [ -n "$(PYTHONVERS)" ] && for ver in $(PYTHONVERS) ; do \
+- [ -d $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ] || install -m 755 -d $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ;\
+- install -m 755 $$ver/_snack.$(SOEXT) $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ;\
+- install -m 644 snack.py $(DESTDIR)/$(libdir)/$$ver/site-packages ;\
++ [ -d $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHON_SITEDIR) ] || install -m 755 -d $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHON_SITEDIR) ;\
++ install -m 755 $$ver/_snack.$(SOEXT) $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHON_SITEDIR) ;\
++ install -m 644 snack.py $(DESTDIR)/$(PYTHON_SITEDIR) ;\
+ done || :
+
+ Makefile: configure.ac
--- /dev/null
+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 python3_{5,6,7,8} )
+
+inherit autotools python-r1 toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Redhat's Newt windowing toolkit development files"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pagure.io/newt"
+SRC_URI="https://releases.pagure.org/newt/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="gpm nls tcl"
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="
+ ${PYTHON_DEPS}
+ >=dev-libs/popt-1.6
+ =sys-libs/slang-2*
+ elibc_uclibc? ( sys-libs/ncurses:0= )
+ gpm? ( sys-libs/gpm )
+ tcl? ( >=dev-lang/tcl-8.5:0 )
+ "
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+ # bug 73850
+ if use elibc_uclibc; then
+ sed -i -e 's:-lslang:-lslang -lncurses:g' Makefile.in || die
+ fi
+
+ sed -i Makefile.in \
+ -e 's|$(SHCFLAGS) -o|$(LDFLAGS) &|g' \
+ -e 's|-g -o|$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o|g' \
+ -e 's|-shared -o|$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) &|g' \
+ -e 's|instroot|DESTDIR|g' \
+ -e 's| make | $(MAKE) |g' \
+ -e "s| ar | $(tc-getAR) |g" \
+ || die "sed Makefile.in"
+
+ if [[ -n ${LINGUAS} ]]; then
+ local lang langs
+ for lang in ${LINGUAS}; do
+ test -r po/${lang}.po && langs="${langs} ${lang}.po"
+ done
+ sed -i po/Makefile \
+ -e "/^CATALOGS = /cCATALOGS = ${langs}" \
+ || die "sed po/Makefile"
+ fi
+
+ eapply \
+ "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.52.13-gold.patch \
+ "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.52.14-tcl.patch \
+ "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.52.21-python-sitedir.patch
+ eapply_user
+ eautoreconf
+
+ # can't build out-of-source
+ python_copy_sources
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+ configuring() {
+ econf \
+ PYTHONVERS="${PYTHON}" \
+ $(use_with gpm gpm-support) \
+ $(use_with tcl) \
+ $(use_enable nls)
+ }
+ python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir configuring
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+ building() {
+ emake PYTHONVERS="${EPYTHON}"
+ }
+ python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir building
+}
+
+src_install() {
+ installit() {
+ python_export PYTHON_SITEDIR
+ emake \
+ DESTDIR="${D}" \
+ PYTHONVERS="${EPYTHON}" \
+ install
+ python_optimize
+ }
+ python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir installit
+ dodoc peanuts.py popcorn.py tutorial.sgml
+ doman whiptail.1
+ einstalldocs
+
+ # don't want static archives
+ rm "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libnewt.a || die
+}