After futzing around for a while installing and re-installing different versions of libftdi trying to get python support installed, I finally noticed that building libftdi python support requires swig. I didn't have swig installed and the ebuild apparently doesn't have it as a dependency.
Is the requirement to have swig installed when requesting python support for certain libraries something you're "just supposed to know", or should it be a dependency in the libftdi ebuild? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I like your SNOOPY at POSTER!! gmail.com