I copied everything to a script - so I shouldn't have missed something.
However, repeating all the steps by hand did the trick... (sorry,  
should have done that before posting...)

Daniel



On 21 Mar 2009, at 12:05, Fabian Groffen wrote:

> On 21-03-2009 11:45:13 +0000, Daniel Stegmueller wrote:
>> I was following
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-macos.xml
>> which went fine until emerge gcc-apple-4.2.1_p5566-r1 died with the
>> following error:
>>
>> configure: error: cannot execute:
>> /Users/dstegmue/Gentoo/usr/bin/i686-apple-darwin9-ld: check --with-ld
>> or env. var. DEFAULT_LINKER
>>
>> The file i686-apple-darwin9-ld is indeed not in that directory...
>> Did I overlook something obvious?
>
> I think you forgot either to emerge binutils-apple, or binutils-config
> and/or did it in the wrong order.
>
> An easy check is `binutils-config -l`, it should show one linker and
> masked with an * to indicate it's active.
>
>
> -- 
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level
>

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