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 qc libbeuter.a src/configcontainer.o src/configparser.o src/colormanager.o src/keymap.o src/stflpp.o src/logger.o src/exception.o src/mutex.o src/utils.o src/thread.o src/matcher.o src/formatstring.o
ranlib libbeuter.a
Fixed in CVS.