This may have already been addressed, and if so I apologize, but I
didn't see any resolution on this.

I tried emerging libiconv on AIX 5.2, and get:

 * Not creating fake dynamic library for libiconv.so;
 * making a symlink instead.
 * Not creating fake dynamic library for libcharset.so;
 * making a symlink instead.
 * keeping aix runtime object '/usr/lib/libiconv.a(shr4.o)' in
'/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/lib/libiconv.a' ...
strip: shr4.o -- 0654-400 Cannot open file.
        Permission denied
                                                                     [
!! ]
>>> Completed installing libiconv-1.11 into
/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libiconv-1.11/image/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/

ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 home/mdmcmull/.overlay/usr/share/man
making executable: home/mdmcmull/.overlay/lib/libcharset.so.1.0.0
making executable: home/mdmcmull/.overlay/lib/libiconv.so.2.4.0

 * QA Notice: Missing gen_usr_ldscript for libcharset.so

 * QA Notice: Missing gen_usr_ldscript for libiconv.so

!!! ERROR: dev-libs/libiconv-1.11 failed.
Call stack:
  misc-functions.sh, line 631:   Called install_qa_check
  misc-functions.sh, line 320:   Called die

!!! add those ldscripts
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
!!! A complete build log is located at
'/home/mdmcmull/.overlay/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/libiconv-1.11/temp/build.log'.

!!! install_qa_check failed; exiting.


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