On Mar 22, 2006, at 6:32 PM, m h wrote:

> During a freak reversal of magnetic poles, the latest prefix code was
> able to emerge the base system!
>
> It involved doing everything previously mentioned in this week's  
> spam thread.
> To get around the gcc issue, gcc3.3.6 was installed.

Ok, so we'll bump the gcc versions in the prefix tree. I'd like to  
4.x in there anyway as well.

>
> The next issue was complaints about "-fno-stack-protector" available
> on gcc.  The was no gcc binary in $PREFIX, so I resolved this by
> adding a gcc symlink in $PREFIX to ${PREFIX}/usr/bin/gcc-3.3.6.

This should be solved by using gcc-config, which sets the appropriate  
symlinks. Its probably broken in prefix though, haven't tested it yet.

>
> I hit the missing libpython2.4.so issue again, so I added
> ${PREFIX}/usr/lib/ to  LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Hmm, so Diego was right...this obviously needs to be fixed. did  
running env-update work as expected?

>
> That along with a few ebuild foo.ebuild digest, and manually
> downloading a few tarballs and putting them in distfiles allowed me to
> finish emerge -av system.

Why the manual downloads?

>
> Next task, get apache working.  Stay tuned....
>
> -matt
>
> ps - thanks a lot for your help grobian and kito!
>

No problem at all, thanks for testing ;). Glad you finally got it  
working, hopefully we can get the bootstrap script working well  
enough to make this not as tedious/trial-and-error.

--Kito




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