diff --git a/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.12.5-r1.ebuild b/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.12.5-r1.ebuild
index 4c8a4adfa06bf..06c118fd88eea 100644
--- a/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.12.5-r1.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.12.5-r1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
-inherit flag-o-matic
+inherit flag-o-matic libtool
 
 DESCRIPTION="versatile and fast Unicode/ASCII/ANSI graphics renderer"
 HOMEPAGE="https://hpjansson.org/chafa/ https://github.com/hpjansson/chafa"
@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
 	_mm_popcnt_u64
 )
 
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
 src_configure() {
 	# bug 909429
 	use webp && append-ldflags -lwebp
diff --git a/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.14.1.ebuild b/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.14.1.ebuild
index 819bed597ca8a..4414459ae1cac 100644
--- a/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.14.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-gfx/chafa/chafa-1.14.1.ebuild
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
 	_mm_popcnt_u64
 )
 
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
 src_configure() {
 	# bug 909429
 	use webp && append-ldflags -lwebp