When attempting to "emerge system" during a stage1-ix86-1.2 installation, emerge aborted while merging Perl with an error referring to ld.so. After merging sys-devel/ld.so, sys-devel/perl merged successfully.
since you're the perl dude around here, i'll let you look into this. Hope it's ok?
Bart, This didn't come up before because ld.so was part of the system packages required during the initial build. Now I see that it isn't listed in some of the default profiles - any idea why that is?
Did you follow the installation guide completely before attempting to emerge perl? On a 1.2 system, ld.so is a part of the system and would have been installed. On a 1.4 system it is part of glibc and also would have been installed. ld.so is a core component of building your system. If it isn't there, perl wasn't your only problem.
perl was included in the system as a dependency; wget optionally depends on openssl which depends on perl. ld.so was also included in the list of packages to be installed but was near the bottom.
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