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: link: /usr/bin/ar cru .libs/libparseconf.a .libs/parseconf.o link: /usr/bin/ar cru .libs/libcommon.a .libs/common.o .libs/state.o .libs/upsconf.o .libs/libcommon.lax/libparseconf.a/parseconf.o
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