diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/dot-a.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/dot-a.eclass
index f82e5da5be..ffd34d9e08 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/dot-a.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/dot-a.eclass
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ strip-lto-bytecode() {
 
 	mapfile -t -d '' files < <(find -H "${@}" -type f \( -name '*.a' -or -name '*.o' \) -print0)
 
-	toolchain_type=
+	local toolchain_type=
 	tc-is-gcc && toolchain_type=gnu
 	tc-is-clang && toolchain_type=llvm