Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 11:54 +0200, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
> ...
>
>   
>> For reasons I can't really explain  I now have no gcc installed, which
>> leads me to expect, you can appreciate my predicament, as I can't re
>> emerge gcc without gcc!
>>     
>
> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/hardened/x86/gcc-3.4.6-r2.tbz2
>
> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/hardened/amd64/multilib/gcc-3.4.6-r2.tbz2
>
> just grab one of the .tbz2 files then
>
> mkdir -p $(portageq envvar PKGDIR)/All
> cd $(portageq envvar PKGDIR)/All
> wget $filename 
> emerge -Kpv gcc
> emerge -K gcc
>
> Or just set PORTAGE_BINHOST= and use the -g/-G options (slow)
>
> thats it.
>
> good luck.
>
>   
Hey everybody

Thanks for all the pointers...

I compiled gcc and it's requirements on a different machine and moved
them to my installation. I'm back in the game, but I was scared there
for a moment, and I still don't know how portage could get the idea that
it was ok to remove gcc.

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Regards / Venlig hilsen

Johannes Skov Frandsen

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