diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/lazy-object-proxy/lazy-object-proxy-1.9.0.ebuild b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/lazy-object-proxy/lazy-object-proxy-1.9.0.ebuild
index 73480ddc15..bb2b12995a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/lazy-object-proxy/lazy-object-proxy-1.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/dev-python/lazy-object-proxy/lazy-object-proxy-1.9.0.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
+DISTUTILS_EXT=1
 DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
 PYPI_NO_NORMALIZE=1
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} pypy3 )