Several packages end up with circular dependencies, depending on which
Portage profile is selected. The default profiles have a circular
dependency between *sys-libs/pam* and *sys-libs/libcap*. Systemd and
SELinux profiles have even more issues.
We can break the circular dependencies by explicitly building *libcap*
with`USE=-pam` first, which happens to be the default configuration
generated by `crossdev`. Then, we need to switch to a more complete
profile in order to build *glibc* and *util-linux*. At this point, the
build root should be complete enough to build anything without circular
dependencies.
Building the OS is now as simple as running `make` on a Gentoo system.
Interestingly, when `make` is executed as a (grand)child process of
another `make` process, it always prints an `Entering directory ...`
message. This breaks the `make kernelversion` command, by adding
extraneous text to the output.
Dustin