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)" checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar libtool: link: /usr/bin/ar cru .libs/libcommon.a .libs/area.o .libs/body_size.o .libs/memory.o .libs/message.o .libs/name.o .libs/names.o .libs/registry.o .libs/errors.o libtool: link: /usr/bin/ar cru .libs/libadapter.a .libs/adapter.o libtool: link: /usr/bin/ar cru .libs/libhost.a .libs/xaction.o
+ 13 Apr 2013; Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> libecap-0.0.2.ebuild, + libecap-0.0.3.ebuild, libecap-0.2.0.ebuild: + Respect AR, reported by Agostino Sarubbo. (bug #457734)