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 crs libdkim.a dkim.o dns.o dkimbase.o dkimsign.o dkimverify.o
+ 03 Aug 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> +libdkim-1.0.21-r2.ebuild, + files/debianize/configure.ac: + Revision bump: EAPI 5, respect AR wrt bug #476770. Do not build static libs + unconditionally, wrt bug #476772. Utilize libtool for supress QA warnings + about missing buildsystem options