Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 10:09 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 13:05 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 22:49 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > I think I've somehow managed to screw gcc up.  Whenever I try to emerge
> > > anything I get this message:
> > >
> > > checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> > > cannot create executables
> > >
> > > It also says "See config.log for details", but I can't find config.log -
> > > it doesn't give a full path.  Is there a way to repair this without
> > > having to completely reinstall Gentoo?
> > >
> >
> > I've had this problem too some time ago - however, i'm not sure how i
> > solved it - but i think it was something with fix-libtool.sh or
> > gcc-config. Try to compile a simple c-program by hand - maybe this will
> > give you some hints about the source of your problem.
> >
> > Matthias
>
>
> I created a simple "Hello World" program in C and tried to compile it
> using gcc:
>
> camille ~ # gcc hello.c
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory

I ran "equery belongs as" and one of the packages that contains that
program was binutils.  I checked the location the the program and it
indeed did not exist which supports my theory.  Is there a way to
rebuild binutils without using gcc?

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