You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar) and calls directly /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)" From the build log: ar cru libccapplication.a capisuite.o capisuitemodule.o incomingscript.o pythonscript.o idlescript.o
+ 26 Apr 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> capisuite-0.4.5-r7.ebuild, + +files/capisuite-0.4.5-respect-ar.patch: + Respect AR, wrt bug #467222. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo for discovering this + issue