After forcing lib-compat to emerge it will install however the ebuild needs to be modified to copy the files properly for amd64 directory... since the ebuild is specific to x86 directory. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Proper emerging of lib-compat .so's
There is app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat, which provides this function.