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 libmisc.a argp-ba.o argp-eexst.o argp-fmtstream.o argp-fs-xinl.o argp-help.o argp-parse.o argp-pin.o argp-pv.o argp-pvh.o argp-xinl.o basename.o stripslash.o strnlen1.o xalloc-die.o xstrndup.o getopt.o getopt1.o dirname.o exitfail.o mbchar.o strcasecmp.o vasnprintf.o printf-args.o printf-parse.o asnprintf.o xmalloc.o
NM log is in bug 475008
*** Bug 475008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
fixed in the migration to cmake, bug 601738