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From: Ricky Egeland <ricky.egeland@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: gentoo prefix bootstrap fails on emerge sys-devel/binutils-2.21.51.0.6
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 20:32:38
Message-Id: 95B9DA16-86E6-4E73-AA57-45C7AA5B8D44@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: gentoo prefix bootstrap fails on emerge sys-devel/binutils-2.21.51.0.6 by Maxim Koltsov
1 On May 10, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote:
2
3 >> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
4 >> $ ld -v
5 >> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-14.el5 20061020
6 >
7 > It seems a bit too old, or too patched. Can you try installing newer
8 > gcc? 4.2 series must me sufficient, i think. If repositories for your
9 > distro doesn't have it, you can try installing it by hand, or emerge
10 > =gcc-4.2 && emerge binutils && emerge =gcc-4.2, but the latter
11 > probably won't work.
12
13 I managed to get the bootstrap procedure moving along by installing an older version of binutils. I'm continuing to build my prefix area with that change.
14
15 But I took a look, and CentOS 5.5 provides gcc 4.4.4 in its 'base' repository as the 'gcc44' package, so maybe that would have worked. If I get a chance later I can try the prefix bootstrap again and see if binutils compiles with that.

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