gcc -march=native -O2 -g0 -I. -fPIC -c termcap.c -o termcap.o simple add CC="$(tc-getCC)" to emake, works
other build settings were being ignored as well. should all be fixed in libtermcap-compat-2.0.8-r3.
*** Bug 335903 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***