amd64box radvd # qlist sox | grep lib64 /usr/lib64/libsox.a /usr/lib64/libsox.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib64/libsox.la /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/sox.pc /usr/lib64/libsox.so /usr/lib64/libsox.so.1 Add static-libs IUSE if other packages needs ".a" You can use also autotools-utils eclass. Thanks
+*sox-14.3.2-r1 (07 Oct 2011) + + 07 Oct 2011; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +sox-14.3.2-r1.ebuild: + USE="static-libs" and Empty dependency_libs in libtool files wrt #386029. + Respect environment CFLAGS with USE="debug" wrt #386027. Thanks to Agostino + Sarubbo for reporting.