diff --git a/net-irc/catgirl/Manifest b/net-irc/catgirl/Manifest
index 5736763d69..e8b99f3130 100644
--- a/net-irc/catgirl/Manifest
+++ b/net-irc/catgirl/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-DIST catgirl-1.7.tar.gz 60329 BLAKE2B 03a1c001869cf268eb88f3ff7a0f9e218e0235b94b80426df74f4d0f020cd97ffdd8840a7e37c805aaad487c6b3d444d160b0b0b5e459a8e23f728cb10a1e7e1 SHA512 b79971d36ee1b3a3e03a6387443efea8b479fc9fe3ac0506f243f9ee81458eba68d6fd21a68d0846d7d9fffa998adc041ef3671f20cdf220ff19e7b9140c7b45
 DIST catgirl-1.8.tar.gz 60915 BLAKE2B e985cad73482eae607e022263e8a07efa76eebd0a6e7b58887423df057a76b45ff6df7d9f3d873af19d4ea7774f4a13c6bf687628ea50fdc2e3359ae406a484b SHA512 c0aebd53d4e94e8f1a54690a8ceaf3f3318f805b7ff474bfce20f7f234e37e2f82fc8b6e8088996f0c88738c9059582b6a2670de9b5c5fcf359da867ad8de6e8
+DIST catgirl-1.9.tar.gz 62597 BLAKE2B 5c5d1eef75b5daa0322b233d369826a86fd701fa6b9aaf5d60ff652147cbbd21859a70ff2d6716c15349de166208bd7e6363bd1dbb53ef560a7826e81890e2fe SHA512 624e83cc68b2d7d7bb337d94c6383deed4a6439ca98b84fb0dffdd7d918a9b9065a4ff435b5b81b397c87ac9797bb9025a2454de47ec8bec4ada53f14d20326c
diff --git a/net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.7.ebuild b/net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.9.ebuild
similarity index 56%
rename from net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.7.ebuild
rename to net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.9.ebuild
index ceb2c43584..a0129b1f56 100644
--- a/net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.7.ebuild
+++ b/net-irc/catgirl/catgirl-1.9.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 # Copyright 2021 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
 
 DESCRIPTION="TLS-only terminal IRC client"
 HOMEPAGE="https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about/"
@@ -11,7 +13,8 @@ LICENSE="GPL-3+"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
 
-DEPEND="dev-libs/libretls
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libretls
 	sys-libs/ncurses
 "
 BDEPEND="virtual/pkgconfig"
@@ -20,9 +23,18 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 DOCS=( README.7 scripts/chat.tmux.conf )
 
 src_configure() {
-	./configure --prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr
+	./configure \
+		--prefix="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
+		--mandir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/man || die
+	tc-export CC
 }
 
 src_compile() {
 	emake all
 }
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	einfo "You are encouraged to patch your own text macros in edit.c"
+	einfo "See Gentoo Wiki article on user patches:"
+	einfo "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches"
+}