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 liblcdf.a bezier.o clp.o error.o filename.o globmatch.o landmark.o md5.o permstr.o point.o slurper.o straccum.o string.o strtonum.o transform.o vectorv.o ar cru libefont.a afm.o afmparse.o afmw.o amfm.o cff.o encoding.o findmet.o metrics.o otf.o otfcmap.o otfdata.o otfdescrip.o otfgpos.o otfgsub.o otfname.o otfos2.o otfpost.o pairop.o psres.o t1bounds.o t1cs.o t1csgen.o t1interp.o t1item.o t1font.o t1fontskel.o t1mm.o t1rw.o t1unparser.o ttfcs.o ttfhead.o ttfkern.o
Created attachment 349986 [details] lcdf-typetools-2.98-r1.ebuild Updated ebuild. This bumps the ebuild to eapi=4 and adds a patch which fixes the issue with ar direct calling. please review.
Created attachment 349988 [details, diff] lcdf-typetools-2.98-ar.patch ar patch for makefile/configure.ac