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 libassembly.a libassembly_a-AssemblyAlgorithms.o libassembly_a-BranchGroup.o libassembly_a-BranchRecord.o libassembly_a-DotWriter.o libassembly_a-Options.o libassembly_a-SequenceCollection.o
+*abyss-1.3.6 (11 Aug 2013) + + 11 Aug 2013; Justin Lecher <jlec@gentoo.org> abyss-1.3.3.ebuild, + abyss-1.3.4.ebuild, +abyss-1.3.6.ebuild, +files/abyss-1.3.3-ac_prog_ar.patch, + +files/abyss-1.3.6-ac_prog_ar.patch, +files/abyss-1.3.6-gcc-4.7.patch: + Version BUmp, respect AR, #477580 +