Circular dependencies on perl in out-of-the-box Gentoo 10.0

[greanie]

I just installed Gentoo a few weeks ago using the latest stable stage3 tarball. Trying to install almost anything through portage yields a circular dependency on perl:

> emerge perl
...
(dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on
(sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
(sys-devel/autoconf-2.68::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)
(dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime)

System Info:
Kernel 3.3.8 / Gentoo 10.0 (by eselect profile list)
Gentoo Base System release 2.1 (by cat /etc/*-release

I can't seem to find any USE flags that will break this circular dependency. As such, I am stuck. Any ideas greatly appreciated. It was difficult enough to install gentoo once on this box. I don't want to have to go down a version.

Thanks!

[Aquous]

Please post the output of

[greanie]

Thanks for looking at this!!

# emerge -pv --nodeps sys-libs/zlib perl

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[ebuild N ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2 USE="static-libs -minizip" 536 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r1 USE="berkdb gdbm -build -debug -doc -ithreads" 0 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 536 kB

[Aquous]

Hmm, it seems that this is actually a genuine circular dependency...
What happens when you do:

[greanie]

No luck on the build.

> emerge -1 --nodeps -k perl zlib

* ERROR: sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2 failed (install phase):
* unable to read SONAME from libz.so
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_install
* environment, line 2778: Called gen_usr_ldscript '-a' 'z'
* environment, line 1898: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [[ -z ${tlib} ]] && die "unable to read SONAME from ${lib}";
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2'`.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/temp/environment'.
* Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/work/zlib-1.2.5.1'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/work/zlib-1.2.5.1'

>>> Failed to emerge sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2, Log file:

>>> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/temp/build.log'

* Messages for package sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2:

* This profile has not been tested thoroughly and is not considered to be
* a supported server profile at this time. For a supported server
* profile, please check the Hardened project (http://hardened.gentoo.org).
* This profile is merely a convenience for people who require a more
* minimal profile, yet are unable to use hardened due to restrictions in
* the software being used on the server. This profile should also be used
* if you require GCC 4.1 or Glibc 2.4 support. If you don't know if this
* applies to you, then it doesn't and you should probably be using
* Hardened, instead.
* ERROR: sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2 failed (install phase):
* unable to read SONAME from libz.so
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_install
* environment, line 2778: Called gen_usr_ldscript '-a' 'z'
* environment, line 1898: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* [[ -z ${tlib} ]] && die "unable to read SONAME from ${lib}";
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2'`.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/temp/environment'.
* Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/work/zlib-1.2.5.1'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.1-r2/work/zlib-1.2.5.1'

[Aquous]

First of all, report a bug as this is a problem in the stage3. Secondly, grab a binary zlib from here: http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2.tbz2 (replace amd64 with your architecture) and unpack it to your filesystem. Then: