I've recently installed gentoo for amd64 2005.1-r1. After the first 
emerge sync and emerge  -u portage I had this bad surprise: after 
upgrading gcc from 3.4.3 (I thing this was the previous version 
installed) to 3.4.4 emerge exited with the error: "/usr/bin/python: 
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared 
object file: No such file or directory". And so was the output of 
env-update and other key-programs.
Actually on my system there isn't libstdc++.so.6 (except from a copy in 
/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/ which is useless i'm afraid). And so I think 
that this is not a simple problem of environment variables. However I've 
corrected the /etc/ld.so.conf, run ldconfig and gcc-config and even 
fix_libtool_files.sh but no way! that library is really missing! And 
also the old gcc installation has gone!
Please have ideas? I'm really astonished!
Thanks to all.
Andrea.
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