Build log should be verbose by default as per talk on dev-ML. Other versions might be affected as well.
Created attachment 320518 [details] publicfile-0.52-r3:20120805-202336.log
This is a maintainer-needed package, please go ahead with this kind of changes and commit them yourself ;)
This doesn't have configure check and setting V=1 neither works :/
+ 01 Jan 2013; Julian Ospald <hasufell@gentoo.org> publicfile-0.52-r3.ebuild, + +files/publicfile-0.52-build.patch: + verbose build log wrt #430084 and respect AR/RANLIB