You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's NM (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nm) and calls directly /usr/bin/nm The possible solutions to fix this issue are: 1)Fix the buildsystem, if you can; 2)inherit toolchain-funcs and use tc-export NM 3)inherit toolchain-funcs and use emake NM="$(tc-getNM)" From the build log: libtool: link: /usr/bin/nm -B .libs/notify.o .libs/notification.o .libs/notify-enum-types.o .libs/notify-marshal.o | sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\)[ ][ ]*\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)$/\1 \2 \2/p' | sed '/ __gnu_lto/d' | /bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libnotify.exp
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 462976 ***