[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

This is - for me - an emergency.  No pun intended.

I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.

I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
gcc-3.4.4-r1.  emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).

For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone.  Totally.
Completely.  Not there.

I know some of you are going to be laughing your heads off at what can
only be a gigantic error in syntaxing my command to emerge, however, I
don't find it at all funny.  I can't start KDE, I can't emerge gcc to
fix the problem, I can't eix gcc to see what versions of gcc are still
there, and other things.  To me it looks like Python is totally
broken.  It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no
longer exists.

I'm totally and completely devoid of all ideas to fix this problem.
My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop a version of
gcc, however, if even emerge --search won't work, I'm willing to bet
that adding FEATURES="distcc" to my make.conf won't do much more than
make a minor footnote in the list of problems I face.

I'm pretty much scared of having to either 1) reinstall Gentoo or 2)
go back to Kubuntu, so help here would be beyond excellent.

I'm not sure how violate an idea this is, but I think it might (some
gigantic emphasis on the might part) be possible to take another
generic i386/i686 copy of libstdc++.so.6 and paste it into where it's
needed.  I think this might fix the problem so that I can the get
emerge to work enough to distcc my way into patching up my critically
wounded system.

Before anyone makes me confess, YES!  I KILLED MY SYSTEM!  However, I
have to defend my pride in saying it wasn't something dumb like
blindly following some rm -r command from some website.

Any help here would be just great.  Thanks for any help you can give in advance.

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