As an addendum to the above, I found this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-831467.html?sid=8182796e790caf6a0c9dd589570c8a4f
It looks like the build for akode is trying to find libakode.so before it's actually been finished compiling. I still don't know what to do about that, or why it would be happening now under GCC 4.4 when it wasn't before, unless it's a libtool "--as-needed" related thing.
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