diff --git a/sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r3.ebuild b/sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r4.ebuild
similarity index 92%
rename from sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r3.ebuild
rename to sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r4.ebuild
index 1a00c0b61e8be..dc668a1d721d6 100644
--- a/sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/hdf5/hdf5-1.12.2-r4.ebuild
@@ -105,4 +105,9 @@ src_install() {
 
 	# No static archives
 	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+
+	# Remove "perf" executable due to file collisions with dev-util/perf.
+	# Previously with the CMake build system we only installed h5perf, so
+	# let's simply remove the file for now.
+	rm "${ED}"/usr/bin/perf || die "rm failed"
 }