diff --git a/app-emulation/libvirt/Manifest b/app-emulation/libvirt/Manifest
index c05b37b7db71e..5d2e4bb19f0df 100644
--- a/app-emulation/libvirt/Manifest
+++ b/app-emulation/libvirt/Manifest
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ DIST libvirt-1.3.0-20151222.tar.xz 1684 SHA256 3628c3398862eae2966ccf0e55822e4cb
 DIST libvirt-1.3.0.tar.gz 30114683 SHA256 ebcf5645fa565e3fe2fe94a86e841db9b768cf0e0a7e6cf395c6327f9a23bd64 SHA512 e252390a05b76e9cd9ed02caadd0ee0d674505f60940bb6ced955e17f69c7dd55fe5b38204ae5c25b6e5703415a0f6a12fc545d138d0e8b016457a85dc8fa2b8 WHIRLPOOL 852c592b27be86d3fb2ec75ca5debf9a1e0ac5de6d1ab06c55c2d70e83de125d10c2fc967b7578fba9137ed7a30b7a7e195f4e5f8d35708deeeddc97424d5e40
 DIST libvirt-1.3.1.tar.gz 29900143 SHA256 a5d43fbed34d31eeffc641d2ac9b6026a57bf1a4fa74d0fa19a9891d9ec2c21a SHA512 a109c09d947f7c5e924fdbc9c9b6c0a9d6ff64d9411aedd9a3e710d20f749b088ff9895e882dd888b88bfea7724a8933534be4078f16cb9d2047da761515e804 WHIRLPOOL 62fb8486bfa53d55b397d9a90750d32a83f0a73cf2e6685f296489390abf9c62efc69fecd6d011fc51e9f562f75f5b8ce03208c350e98d20de0a5560721c675e
 DIST libvirt-1.3.2.tar.gz 30056101 SHA256 e3c6fc2683178660b371efb3ac7a1103a3f4b78efac7ffe560bc5917974ccf05 SHA512 bcca111204c42db3a199c7d35758e78bcd9da557f091cb690dd712912aeee0ee89afa37a427ad972b94cc8ea9ed0788ff555a9042a9bab5ad0b55ca0d13aed1c WHIRLPOOL 551c4232e4890515276824e96a4379cc4908b71ac2d7ad27e4a1f7c78cc0ca39223422c17fee929d5dce090af03eaba5b5bd7ef83b0fc995dcac03398ef5d43b
+DIST libvirt-1.3.4.tar.gz 30493908 SHA256 e2396ebebb3f3fdb50429ce8faa99559f6e8e3cc0493d5fa0c1999db189c25bd SHA512 6f85e4cd8a696da729bb88368c608694119258c6ab7f9b99f41c34a6cc4492d9ad90b8ff1574fd4ee6c78c674a3a501db60d1d3ba898f7013321ecc996612919 WHIRLPOOL af4a8a0e3d746f50e0f9d95e3920c023c5bbec0d7c641f43aea580db9b95a793027f7579ecd94625a68b7e3662c328d94b7b2d243afea60a8d2f31cab1cc9319
diff --git a/app-emulation/libvirt/files/libvirt-1.3.4-glibc-2.23.patch b/app-emulation/libvirt/files/libvirt-1.3.4-glibc-2.23.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..adeff5c3f3050
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emulation/libvirt/files/libvirt-1.3.4-glibc-2.23.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+get major/minor macros by using AC_HEADER_MAJOR
+
+https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Particular-Headers.html#AC_HEADER_MAJOR
+
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/579960
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index 93d347c..1e7ee51 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -282,2 +282,5 @@ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([long])
+ 
++dnl detect system-specific headers for major()/minor()
++AC_HEADER_MAJOR
++
+ dnl Availability of various common functions (non-fatal if missing),
+diff --git a/src/conf/domain_audit.c b/src/conf/domain_audit.c
+index bd2eeb6..74b2487 100644
+--- a/src/conf/domain_audit.c
++++ b/src/conf/domain_audit.c
+@@ -28,2 +28,9 @@
+ 
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++# include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include "domain_audit.h"
+diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c b/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
+index 76bef82..49c0648 100644
+--- a/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
++++ b/src/lxc/lxc_controller.c
+@@ -48,2 +48,9 @@
+ 
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++# include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include "virerror.h"
+diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
+index 3c6c839..983cd21 100644
+--- a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
++++ b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
+@@ -38,2 +38,9 @@
+ 
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++# include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include "virerror.h"
+diff --git a/src/util/vircgroup.c b/src/util/vircgroup.c
+index 38398fd..4b45458 100644
+--- a/src/util/vircgroup.c
++++ b/src/util/vircgroup.c
+@@ -31,2 +31,10 @@
+ #endif
++
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++# include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include <fcntl.h>
+diff --git a/src/util/virutil.c b/src/util/virutil.c
+index bb9604a..9840a9e 100644
+--- a/src/util/virutil.c
++++ b/src/util/virutil.c
+@@ -68,2 +68,9 @@
+ 
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_MKDEV
++# include <sys/mkdev.h>
++#endif
++#ifdef MAJOR_IN_SYSMACROS
++# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
++#endif
++
+ #include "c-ctype.h"
diff --git a/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-1.3.4.ebuild b/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-1.3.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..67b638a295443
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-1.3.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,386 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit eutils user autotools-utils linux-info systemd readme.gentoo
+
+BACKPORTS=""
+
+if [[ ${PV} = *9999* ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git"
+	SRC_URI=""
+	KEYWORDS=""
+	SLOT="0"
+else
+	# Versions with 4 numbers are stable updates:
+	if [[ ${PV} =~ ^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+){3} ]]; then
+		SRC_URI="http://libvirt.org/sources/stable_updates/${P}.tar.gz"
+	else
+		SRC_URI="http://libvirt.org/sources/${P}.tar.gz"
+	fi
+	SRC_URI+=" ${BACKPORTS:+
+		https://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/distfiles/${P}-${BACKPORTS}.tar.xz
+		https://dev.gentoo.org/~tamiko/distfiles/${P}-${BACKPORTS}.tar.xz}"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+	SLOT="0/${PV}"
+fi
+
+DESCRIPTION="C toolkit to manipulate virtual machines"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.libvirt.org/"
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+IUSE="apparmor audit avahi +caps firewalld fuse glusterfs iscsi +libvirtd lvm \
+	lxc +macvtap nfs nls numa openvz parted pcap phyp policykit +qemu rbd sasl \
+	selinux systemd +udev uml +vepa virtualbox virt-network wireshark-plugins \
+	xen"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	firewalld? ( virt-network )
+	libvirtd? ( || ( lxc openvz qemu uml virtualbox xen ) )
+	lxc? ( caps libvirtd )
+	openvz? ( libvirtd )
+	qemu? ( libvirtd )
+	uml? ( libvirtd )
+	vepa? ( macvtap )
+	virt-network? ( libvirtd )
+	virtualbox? ( libvirtd )
+	xen? ( libvirtd )"
+
+# gettext.sh command is used by the libvirt command wrappers, and it's
+# non-optional, so put it into RDEPEND.
+# We can use both libnl:1.1 and libnl:3, but if you have both installed, the
+# package will use 3 by default. Since we don't have slot pinning in an API,
+# we must go with the most recent
+RDEPEND="
+	app-misc/scrub
+	dev-libs/libgcrypt:0
+	dev-libs/libnl:3
+	>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.6
+	>=net-analyzer/netcat6-1.0-r2
+	>=net-libs/gnutls-1.0.25
+	net-libs/libssh2
+	>=net-misc/curl-7.18.0
+	sys-apps/dmidecode
+	>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.17
+	sys-devel/gettext
+	sys-libs/ncurses:0=
+	sys-libs/readline:=
+	apparmor? ( sys-libs/libapparmor )
+	audit? ( sys-process/audit )
+	avahi? ( >=net-dns/avahi-0.6[dbus] )
+	caps? ( sys-libs/libcap-ng )
+	firewalld? ( net-firewall/firewalld )
+	fuse? ( >=sys-fs/fuse-2.8.6 )
+	glusterfs? ( >=sys-cluster/glusterfs-3.4.1 )
+	iscsi? ( sys-block/open-iscsi )
+	lvm? ( >=sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.48-r2 )
+	lxc? ( !systemd? ( sys-power/pm-utils ) )
+	nfs? ( net-fs/nfs-utils )
+	numa? (
+		>sys-process/numactl-2.0.2
+		sys-process/numad
+	)
+	openvz? ( sys-kernel/openvz-sources:* )
+	parted? (
+		>=sys-block/parted-1.8[device-mapper]
+		sys-fs/lvm2
+	)
+	pcap? ( >=net-libs/libpcap-1.0.0 )
+	policykit? ( >=sys-auth/polkit-0.9 )
+	qemu? (
+		>=app-emulation/qemu-0.13.0
+		dev-libs/yajl
+		!systemd? ( sys-power/pm-utils )
+	)
+	rbd? ( sys-cluster/ceph )
+	sasl? ( dev-libs/cyrus-sasl )
+	selinux? ( >=sys-libs/libselinux-2.0.85 )
+	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
+	virt-network? (
+		net-dns/dnsmasq[script]
+		net-firewall/ebtables
+		>=net-firewall/iptables-1.4.10[ipv6]
+		net-misc/radvd
+		sys-apps/iproute2[-minimal]
+	)
+	virtualbox? ( || ( app-emulation/virtualbox >=app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-2.2.0 ) )
+	wireshark-plugins? ( net-analyzer/wireshark:= )
+	xen? (
+		app-emulation/xen
+		app-emulation/xen-tools:=
+	)
+	udev? (
+		virtual/udev
+		>=x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.9
+	)"
+
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	app-text/xhtml1
+	dev-lang/perl
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	dev-perl/XML-XPath
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	enewgroup qemu 77
+	enewuser qemu 77 -1 -1 qemu kvm
+
+	# Some people used the masked ebuild which was not adding the qemu
+	# user to the kvm group originally. This results in VMs failing to
+	# start for some users. bug #430808
+	egetent group kvm | grep -q qemu
+	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+		gpasswd -a qemu kvm
+	fi
+
+	# Check kernel configuration:
+	CONFIG_CHECK=""
+	use fuse && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~FUSE_FS"
+
+	use lvm && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~BLK_DEV_DM
+		~DM_MULTIPATH
+		~DM_SNAPSHOT"
+
+	use lxc && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~BLK_CGROUP
+		~CGROUP_CPUACCT
+		~CGROUP_DEVICE
+		~CGROUP_FREEZER
+		~CGROUP_NET_PRIO
+		~CGROUP_PERF
+		~CGROUPS
+		~CGROUP_SCHED
+		~CPUSETS
+		~DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
+		~IPC_NS
+		~MACVLAN
+		~NAMESPACES
+		~NET_CLS_CGROUP
+		~NET_NS
+		~PID_NS
+		~POSIX_MQUEUE
+		~SECURITYFS
+		~USER_NS
+		~UTS_NS
+		~VETH
+		~!GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MOUNT
+		~!GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_DOUBLE
+		~!GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_PIVOT
+		~!GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CHMOD
+		~!GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CAPS"
+	# Handle specific kernel versions for different features
+	kernel_is lt 3 6 && CONFIG_CHECK+=" ~CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR"
+	kernel_is ge 3 6 && CONFIG_CHECK+=" ~MEMCG ~MEMCG_SWAP ~MEMCG_KMEM"
+
+	use macvtap && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~MACVTAP"
+
+	use virt-network && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~BRIDGE_EBT_MARK_T
+		~BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES
+		~NETFILTER_ADVANCED
+		~NETFILTER_XT_CONNMARK
+		~NETFILTER_XT_MARK
+		~NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CHECKSUM"
+	# Bandwidth Limiting Support
+	use virt-network && CONFIG_CHECK+="
+		~BRIDGE_EBT_T_NAT
+		~NET_ACT_POLICE
+		~NET_CLS_FW
+		~NET_CLS_U32
+		~NET_SCH_HTB
+		~NET_SCH_INGRESS
+		~NET_SCH_SFQ"
+
+	ERROR_USER_NS="Optional depending on LXC configuration."
+
+	if [[ -n ${CONFIG_CHECK} ]]; then
+		linux-info_pkg_setup
+	fi
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	touch "${S}/.mailmap"
+
+	if [[ ${PV} = *9999* ]]; then
+		# git checkouts require bootstrapping to create the configure script.
+		# Additionally the submodules must be cloned to the right locations
+		# bug #377279
+		./bootstrap || die "bootstrap failed"
+		(
+			git submodule status | sed 's/^[ +-]//;s/ .*//'
+			git hash-object bootstrap.conf
+		) >.git-module-status
+	fi
+
+	epatch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.0-do_not_use_sysconf.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.16-fix_paths_in_libvirt-guests_sh.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.1-fix_paths_for_apparmor.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.21-avoid_deprecated_pc_file.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${P}-glibc-2.23.patch
+
+	[[ -n ${BACKPORTS} ]] &&
+		EPATCH_FORCE=yes EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" \
+			EPATCH_SOURCE="${WORKDIR}/patches" epatch
+
+	epatch_user
+
+	# Tweak the init script:
+	cp "${FILESDIR}/libvirtd.init-r16" "${S}/libvirtd.init" || die
+	sed -e "s/USE_FLAG_FIREWALLD/$(usex firewalld 'need firewalld' '')/" \
+		-e "s/USE_FLAG_AVAHI/$(usex avahi 'use avahi-daemon' '')/" \
+		-e "s/USE_FLAG_ISCSI/$(usex iscsi 'use iscsid' '')/" \
+		-e "s/USE_FLAG_RBD/$(usex rbd 'use ceph' '')/" \
+		-i "${S}/libvirtd.init" || die "sed failed"
+
+	AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=true
+	autotools-utils_src_prepare
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(use_with apparmor)
+		$(use_with apparmor apparmor-profiles)
+		$(use_with audit)
+		$(use_with avahi)
+		$(use_with caps capng)
+		$(use_with firewalld)
+		$(use_with fuse)
+		$(use_with glusterfs)
+		$(use_with glusterfs storage-gluster)
+		$(use_with iscsi storage-iscsi)
+		$(use_with libvirtd)
+		$(use_with lvm storage-lvm)
+		$(use_with lvm storage-mpath)
+		$(use_with lxc)
+		$(use_with macvtap)
+		$(use_enable nls)
+		$(use_with numa numactl)
+		$(use_with numa numad)
+		$(use_with openvz)
+		$(use_with parted storage-disk)
+		$(use_with pcap libpcap)
+		$(use_with phyp)
+		$(use_with policykit polkit)
+		$(use_with qemu)
+		$(use_with qemu yajl)
+		$(use_with rbd storage-rbd)
+		$(use_with sasl)
+		$(use_with selinux)
+		$(use_with systemd systemd-daemon)
+		$(usex systemd --with-init-script=systemd '')
+		$(use_with udev)
+		$(use_with uml)
+		$(use_with vepa virtualport)
+		$(use_with virt-network network)
+		$(use_with wireshark-plugins wireshark-dissector)
+		$(use_with xen)
+		$(use_with xen xen-inotify)
+		$(usex xen --with-libxl '')
+
+		--without-hal
+		--without-netcf
+		--without-sanlock
+		--without-xenapi
+		--with-esx
+		--with-qemu-group=$(usex caps qemu root)
+		--with-qemu-user=$(usex caps qemu root)
+		--with-remote
+		--with-storage-fs
+		--with-vmware
+
+		--disable-static
+		--disable-werror
+
+		--with-html-subdir=${PF}/html
+		--localstatedir=/var
+	)
+
+	if use virtualbox && has_version app-emulation/virtualbox-ose; then
+		myeconfargs+=( --with-vbox=/usr/lib/virtualbox-ose/ )
+	else
+		myeconfargs+=( $(use_with virtualbox vbox) )
+	fi
+
+	autotools-utils_src_configure
+
+	if [[ ${PV} = *9999* ]]; then
+		# Restore gnulib's config.sub and config.guess
+		# bug #377279
+		(cd .gnulib && git reset --hard > /dev/null)
+	fi
+
+	# Workaround: Sometimes this subdirectory is missing and leads to a
+	# build failure.
+	mkdir -p "${BUILD_DIR}"/docs/internals
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	# Explicitly allow parallel build of tests
+	export VIR_TEST_DEBUG=1
+	HOME="${T}" emake check || die "tests failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	autotools-utils_src_compile install \
+		DESTDIR="${D}" \
+		SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR="$(systemd_get_unitdir)"
+
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+
+	# Remove bogus, empty directories. They are either not used, or
+	# libvirtd is able to create them on demand
+	rm -rf "${D}"/etc/sysconfig
+	rm -rf "${D}"/var/cache
+	rm -rf "${D}"/var/run
+	rm -rf "${D}"/var/log
+
+	use libvirtd || return 0
+	# From here, only libvirtd-related instructions, be warned!
+
+	use systemd && systemd_install_serviced \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/libvirtd.service.conf libvirtd.service
+
+	systemd_newtmpfilesd "${FILESDIR}"/libvirtd.tmpfiles.conf libvirtd.conf
+
+	newinitd "${S}/libvirtd.init" libvirtd || die
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/libvirt-guests.init-r2" libvirt-guests || die
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/virtlockd.init-r1" virtlockd || die
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}/virtlogd.init-r1" virtlogd || die
+
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/libvirtd.confd-r5" libvirtd || die
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}/libvirt-guests.confd" libvirt-guests || die
+
+	DOC_CONTENTS=$(<"${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo-r1")
+	DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING=true
+	readme.gentoo_create_doc
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	# we only ever want to generate this once
+	if [[ -e "${ROOT}"/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml ]]; then
+		rm -rf "${D}"/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if [[ -e "${ROOT}"/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml ]]; then
+		touch "${ROOT}"/etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml
+	fi
+
+	use libvirtd || return 0
+	# From here, only libvirtd-related instructions, be warned!
+
+	if [[ -n ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]] && ! version_is_at_least 1.2.18-r2 ${REPLACING_VERSIONS} ]]; then
+		FORCE_PRINT_ELOG=true
+	fi
+
+	DOC_CONTENTS=$(<"${FILESDIR}/README.gentoo-r1")
+	DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING=true
+	readme.gentoo_print_elog
+}
diff --git a/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9999.ebuild b/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9999.ebuild
index 22d4afbc0148a..2b973d6a8f477 100644
--- a/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9999.ebuild
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ src_prepare() {
 	epatch \
 		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.0-do_not_use_sysconf.patch \
 		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.16-fix_paths_in_libvirt-guests_sh.patch \
-		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.1-fix_paths_for_apparmor.patch
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.1-fix_paths_for_apparmor.patch \
+		"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.3.4-glibc-2.23.patch
 
 	[[ -n ${BACKPORTS} ]] &&
 		EPATCH_FORCE=yes EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" \