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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
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: Wed, 11 May 2011 06:49:18
Message-Id: 20110511064838.GX24801@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: gentoo prefix bootstrap fails on emerge sys-devel/binutils-2.21.51.0.6 by Ricky Egeland
1 On 10-05-2011 17:31:25 -0300, Ricky Egeland wrote:
2 >
3 > On May 10, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote:
4 >
5 > >> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
6 > >> $ ld -v
7 > >> GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.6-14.el5 20061020
8 > >
9 > > It seems a bit too old, or too patched. Can you try installing newer
10 > > gcc? 4.2 series must me sufficient, i think. If repositories for your
11 > > distro doesn't have it, you can try installing it by hand, or emerge
12 > > =gcc-4.2 && emerge binutils && emerge =gcc-4.2, but the latter
13 > > probably won't work.
14 >
15 > 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.
16
17 I think this should be ok. On purpose a new gcc is emerged early in the
18 process.
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20 > 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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22 On FreeBSD I also noticed that I needed this binutils 2.21-r1 version to
23 get things going. I think you're wasting your time if you try again
24 from scratch now.
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27 --
28 Fabian Groffen
29 Gentoo on a different level