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 $\text{\$}$ makepkg data/linux/arch/mitsuba/PKGBUILD
 \end{shell}
 
+\subsection{Compiling on Gentoo Linux}
+Simon Haegler has contributed a Gentoo \code{ebuild} script that can be used to Mitsuba.
+It can be found inside the user repository \code{git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/user/mistafunk.git}
+and is located at \code{media-gfx/mitsuba/mitsuba-0.3.0.ebuild}.
+
 \subsection{Building on Windows}
 On the Windows platform, Mitsuba already includes many of the dependencies in precompiled form.
 There are a few things to set up though. First, please make sure that your