You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR ( x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar - /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar ) and calls directly ar - /usr/bin/ar The possible solutions to fix this issue are: 1)Fix the buildsystem, if you can 2)inherit toolchain-funcs and use tc-export AR 3)inherit toolchain-funcs and use emake AR="$(tc-getAR)" ar cru libpotrace.a curve.o trace.o decompose.o potracelib.o
different issue imho it uses libpotrace from system but insists in building its own that will be thrown away...
fixed in 1.2 $ cat files/dvisvgm-1.2-external_potrace.patch Do not build potracelib if system potrace is being used. https://bugs.launchpad.net/dvisvgm/+bug/1153182 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446902