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 libcommands.a commandhistory.o commandlist.o notemovecommand.o deletechordcommand.o insertchordorrestcommand.o ereasechordorrestcommand.o addnoteatcommand.o movechordsandrestscommand.o untieforwardcommand.o ereasenotecommand.o changenotestatus.o changechordorrestlength.o movechordsandrestsreversecommand.o changexpositioncommand.o deletesystemcommand.o movesystemcommand.o changespacement.o deletechordorrestgroupcommand.o tienotescommand.o appendnewpagecommand.o appendsystemcommand.o getsystemfromnextpagecmmand.o removelastpagecommand.o appendstaffcommand.o deletestaffcommand.o shiftstaffcommand.o paperconfigcommand.o notemoverelativecommand.o settotupletcommand.o setstaffcontext.o insertchordorrestgroupcommand.o insertnewpagecommand.o changemeasuretypecommand.o movespecmeasurecommand.o changemeasuretimsigcommand.o inserttiedelementcommand.o changetimsigcommand.o removestaffelemcommand.o insertstaffelemcommand.o newlyricscommand.o deletelyricscommand.o changenotehead.o removepagecommand.o changechordorreststatus.o changeupbeatcommand.o insertfreeplaceablecommand.o fixmovedfreeplaceablecommand.o removefreeplaceablecommand.o changetie.o fixintermediatecommand.o flipvaluescommand.o removeconstraintscommand.o changemeasurespread.o changestaffkeysigcmd.o transposecommand.o changestaffclefcmd.o restmovecommand.o changeaccidentalcmd.o changelyricscommand.o ar cru libidiotseditor.a idiotseditor.o idcommandhistory.o idcommandlist.o changeidnotecommand.o ar cru libdialogs.a staffcontextdialog.o portchoosedialog.o paperconfigdialog.o printconfigdialog.o tupletdialog.o insertblockdialog.o measureconfigdialog.o keysigdialog.o scoreinfodialog.o clefconfigdialog.o volumedialog.o tempodialog.o mutedialog.o linesdialog.o signsdialog.o textdialog.o lilypondexportdialog.o staffselectdialog.o spacementdialog.o selectordialog.o tools.o scaledialog.o chordnamedialog.o midiimportdialog.o midirecordconfigdialog.o druminfo.o drumconfigdialog.o lyricseditor.o ar cru libchords.a chorddialog.o chordpainter.o chords.o
+ 18 Feb 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> nted-1.10.18-r1.ebuild, + nted-1.10.18-r2.ebuild: + Respect AR, wrt bug #458084. Thanks to Agostino Sarubbo, who discovered this + issue
