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)" ar r ../lib/ind.a indword.o indutil.o indSpellChecker.o indSetupIndChecker.o indScanStream.o indscan.o indrenum.o indnode.o indmini.o indlink.o indind.o indGuessList.o indguess.o indfront.o inddeb.o && ranlib ../lib/ind.a
+ 15 Mar 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> ted-2.22.ebuild: + Respect AR and RANLIB, wrt bug #461256. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo for + discovering this issue