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 r libinn.a setproctitle.o strlcat.o strlcpy.o argparse.o buffer.o cleanfrom.o clientactive.o clientlib.o commands.o concat.o conffile.o confparse.o daemonize.o date.o dbz.o defdist.o dispatch.o fdflags.o fdlimit.o getfqdn.o getmodaddr.o hash.o hashtab.o headers.o hex.o innconf.o inndcomm.o list.o localopen.o lockfile.o makedir.o md5.o messageid.o messages.o mmap.o network.o newsuser.o nntp.o numbers.o qio.o radix32.o readin.o remopen.o reservedfd.o resource.o sendarticle.o sendpass.o sequence.o timer.o tst.o uwildmat.o vector.o wire.o xfopena.o xmalloc.o xsignal.o xwrite.o
Created attachment 349894 [details, diff] inn-2.5.3-r1.patch This patch for the latest ebuild fixes ar direct calling. please review.
Thanks, fixed in CVS. + 03 Jun 2013; Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> + +files/inn-2.5.3-ar.patch, +files/innd-r1, +inn-2.5.3-r2.ebuild: + Add missing PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE. Add elog to recommend using emerge --config. + Respect AR wrt bug #461254. Use correct run dir and fix init script to avoid + reporting its status as 'crashed', wrt bug #468010.
