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 libgnu.a localcharset.o malloca.o mbchar.o mbscasecmp.o mbschr.o mbslen.o mbsncasecmp.o mbsstr.o mbswidth.o strnlen1.o uniwidth/width.o xalloc-die.o xsetenv.o exitfail.o tempname.o xmalloc.o ar cru libtxi.a substring.o xexit.o
you need to post an actual build log. works fine for me.
Created attachment 344270 [details] build log
should be fixed in texinfo-5.1