Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

[Willie Wong]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/15/2011 06:29 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ has system info, bash_history, and logs from
> > my 7th attempt to install from the beginning, using
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 as the battle plan.
> >
> > Among the 8 attempts, once I used the 0514 portage, twice I used the 0507
> > portage, and the rest I used the 0511 portage. I'm surprised I ever got a
> > kernel, networking, and mc working on the first try, because I've been unable
> > to get anything except kernel sources to emerge since the first attempt.
> > Every other emerge attempt has generated either "ERROR:...(compile phase)..."
> > or "ERROR:...(configure phase)...", plus 'die "econf failed"'.
> >
> > At this point I have to believe there's a Gentoo bug(s) I'm hitting rather
> > than mistakes following instructions. I've put in most of the past 5 days
> > trying, and have to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm
> > sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started,
> > and need to get back to normal life soon.
>
> Purge ccache entirely from your system, it's bad news. Then `source
> /etc/profile && env-update`.

What's strange is that the emerge --info Felix linked to does not have
ccache in Features. But it is timestamped earlier than the other
logs...

Is ccache installed? (emerge --search ccache) if yes unmerge it
(emerge --unmerge ccache). And you may want to use gcc-config to reset
the links to gcc. 

W

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