This package installs also static libs ".a" please provide do add relative USE. TIA /usr/lib/libcrack.a /usr/lib/libcrack.so /usr/lib/libcrack.la Please remove also .la if is not needed.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add USE=static-libs support http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/cracklib/cracklib-2.8.18-r1.ebuild?rev=1.1