diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/autotools.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/autotools.eclass
index e93338ac6b..3a9119856a 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/autotools.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/autotools.eclass
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 # @ECLASS: autotools.eclass
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
 # Note: We require GNU m4, as does autoconf.  So feel free to use any features
 # from the GNU version of m4 without worrying about other variants (i.e. BSD).
 
+case ${EAPI} in
+	6|7|8) ;;
+	*) die "${ECLASS}: EAPI ${EAPI:-0} not supported" ;;
+esac
+
 if [[ ${_AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND+set} == "set" ]] ; then
 	# See if we were included already, but someone changed the value
 	# of AUTOTOOLS_AUTO_DEPEND on us.  We could reload the entire
@@ -26,14 +31,7 @@ fi
 if [[ -z ${_AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS} ]] ; then
 _AUTOTOOLS_ECLASS=1
 
-case ${EAPI} in
-	6)
-		# Needed for eqawarn
-		inherit eutils
-		;;
-	7|8) ;;
-	*) die "${ECLASS}: EAPI ${EAPI} not supported" ;;
-esac
+[[ ${EAPI} == 6 ]] && inherit eqawarn
 
 inherit gnuconfig libtool