diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/Manifest b/dev-lang/janet/Manifest
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--- a/dev-lang/janet/Manifest
+++ b/dev-lang/janet/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST janet-1.8.1.tar.gz 977929 BLAKE2B 4cdf9e5dd7f4a1128438db8bec43c4f1919392bf6c317e2fca42b73826058cd98cec812c245354cc26f21edd4b9640f94dce1e82daa785b53e7e1e8fb45148a9 SHA512 e2296b16ad7df35e0f6ff0f56b9cd5071e887288df195ac0a14a73284a48f010cc26a413ea836aa3faa4385e25f7f313b183f0fbb8e6eebdc3975b69c62e4ebf
+DIST janet-1.9.1.tar.gz 995046 BLAKE2B c65f59e874690b124b61811406670ed6bf9e23d930b5206a9fefebd64629a2287076a40db885b8a820d733a353237fea65dadccdf4efdd33f1537127f67e66b1 SHA512 4024b2f5bc52338b77c954e384157234ef3cecf21142ef60158adb656396b42accae3af8acb8e54f602f5fbce0e1e1f7f29030878ef2ac7055e933dd710db879
diff --git a/dev-lang/janet/janet-1.9.1.ebuild b/dev-lang/janet/janet-1.9.1.ebuild
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@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Copyright 2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit flag-o-matic
+
+DESCRIPTION="A dynamic Lisp dialect and bytecode vm"
+HOMEPAGE="https://janet-lang.org https://github.com/janet-lang/janet/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/janet-lang/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="static-libs"
+
+src_configure() {
+	append-ldflags -Wl,-soname,libjanet.so.0
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	# janet_build is the git hash of the commit related to the
+	# current release - it defines a constant which is then shown
+	# when starting janet
+	local janet_build='\"4ae372\"'
+	emake PREFIX="/usr" JANET_BUILD="${janet_build}"
+	emake PREFIX="/usr" build/janet.pc JANET_BUILD="${janet_build}"
+	emake PREFIX="/usr" docs JANET_BUILD="${janet_build}"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	dobin "build/janet"
+	dobin "jpm"
+
+	doheader "src/include/janet.h"
+	doheader "src/conf/janetconf.h"
+
+	dolib.so "build/libjanet.so"
+	dosym libjanet.so /usr/$(get_libdir)/libjanet.so.1.9
+
+	if use static-libs; then
+		dolib.a "build/libjanet.a"
+	fi
+	doman "janet.1"
+	doman "jpm.1"
+
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig/
+	doins "build/janet.pc"
+	dodoc -r examples
+	dodoc "build/doc.html"
+}