You receive this bug because this package does not respect my system's AR (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar) and calls directly /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)" From the build log: ar cru libfvwm.a gravity.o BidiJoin.o Flocale.o PictureUtils.o FScreen.o Graphics.o PictureGraphics.o Bindings.o FlocaleCharset.o Parse.o PictureImageLoader.o Colorset.o ColorUtils.o CombineChars.o Module.o FRender.o Ficonv.o envvar.o Fft.o gravity.o XResource.o FEvent.o FImage.o WinMagic.o Target.o Picture.o XError.o queue.o fvwmsignal.o System.o PictureBase.o Cursor.o Strings.o fvwmrect.o FRenderInit.o safemalloc.o FBidi.o wild.o Grab.o Event.o ClientMsg.o setpgrp.o FShape.o FGettext.o Rectangles.o timeout.o flist.o charmap.o wcontext.o modifiers.o fsm.o FTips.o fio.o fvwmlib.o
Created attachment 353778 [details, diff] fvwm-2.6.5-ar.patch This patch fixes the buildsystem. Please have a look at it.
Created attachment 353780 [details, diff] patch against latest ebuild Patch against the latest ebuild which incorporates my ar-patch.
+ 12 Oct 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +files/fvwm-2.6.5-ar.patch, + -fvwm-2.6.2.ebuild, -fvwm-2.6.3.ebuild, fvwm-2.6.5.ebuild: + Respect AR (#474528 by Michael Mair-Keimberger (iamnr3)), drop old +
