I don't know who maintains this, so I cannot assign it there. As such, I'm poking the last people to work on this package. I was doing a test run of catalyst today and popt got merged before baselayout, as such, it threw it's .libraries into /lib instead of /lib64... Thanks
Ugh... OK. This is definitely a problem elsewhere. It seems to be something with calling get_libdir. I've checked the profile and even switched to another profile and it is still doing the same thing. It's either something with econf or something else that I haven't discovered yet. Sorry for all the confusion and trouble.