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 cru libcompat.a getopt.o getopt1.o xalloc.o regex.o ar cru libafm.a afm.o afmparse.o strhash.o e_88591.o e_88592.o e_88593.o e_88594.o e_88595.o e_88597.o e_88599.o e_885910.o e_pc.o e_mac.o e_vms.o e_hp8.o e_koi8.o deffont.o
Fixing this requires running eautoreconf, which makes a thousand other things fail in turn. Right now not worth the effort.
commit a9d34704b8f19365fb585cec6b71dd2b344e8316 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> Date: Sat Feb 11 20:51:48 2017 +0100 app-text/enscript: Honor AR setting, bug 447620 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1 app-text/enscript/enscript-1.6.6.ebuild | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)