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 .libs/libgdomecore.al gdome-xml-xmldtdutil.lo gdome-xml-xmlmemory.lo gdome-xml-str.lo gdome-xml-text.lo gdome-xml-comment.lo gdome-xml-cdata.lo gdome-xml-attribute.lo gdome-xml-element.lo gdome-xml-document.lo gdome-xml-documentt.lo gdome-xml-documentf.lo gdome-xml-domimpl.lo gdome-xml-nnodem.lo gdome-xml-nodel.lo gdome-xml-node.lo gdome-xml-pi.lo gdome-xml-notation.lo gdome-xml-entity.lo gdome-xml-xmlutil.lo gdome-xml-cdatas.lo gdome-xml-entityref.lo gdome-xml-xpns.lo
+ 10 Apr 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> gdome2-0.8.1-r4.ebuild: + Respect AR, wrt bug #459844. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo for discovering this + issue