As per $summary, EAPI 4 can be used and I see that libpri installs: /usr/lib64/libpri.a /usr/lib64/libpri.so You can provide to add USE static-libs and a string like: use static-libs || find "${D}" -name '*.a' -delete Thanks.
+*libpri-1.4.12-r2 (17 Aug 2011) + + 17 Aug 2011; Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo.org> + -files/libpri-1.4.11.1-multilib.patch, + -files/libpri-1.4.11.1-respect-cflags.patch, + -files/libpri-1.4.11.1-respect-ldflags.patch, + -files/libpri-1.4.11.1-werror-is-ill-advised.patch, -libpri-1.4.11.4.ebuild, + -libpri-1.4.11.5.ebuild, -libpri-1.4.12_beta2.ebuild, + -libpri-1.4.12_beta3.ebuild, -libpri-1.4.12.ebuild, +libpri-1.4.12-r2.ebuild, + -files/libpri-1.4.12-released-respect-cflags.patch, + -files/libpri-1.4.12-respect-cflags.patch, + -files/libpri-1.4.12-respect-ldflags.patch: + Incorporate USE="static-libs" functionality and bump to EAPI 4 as suggested + by Agostino "ago" Sarubbo in bug #377603. Remove old ebuilds & patches.