[gentoo-user] checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

[Dale]

Hi,

I'm trying to update my old rig, the x86 one.  It is about 2 months or 
so behind.  I wanted to get it ready for the latest KDE for my brother 
to play on.  I keep running into this type of error:

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to disable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in 
`/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1/work/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! 
/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1/work/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1/config.log
  * ERROR: x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.22.1 failed (configure phase):
  *   econf failed


This happens with LOTS of packages.  I did a google search and found 
some really old threads and tried a few things but nothing seems to 
work.  This is emerge info:

root@smoker ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.0_alpha31 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, 
glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 
Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 May 2011 00:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.6.6-r1, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout:      1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.2.10
sys-devel/make:           3.81-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.11.2-r3
Repositories: gentoo
Installed sets: @system, @xorg-drivers
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d 
/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --backtrack=30"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks fixlafiles 
fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox 
sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=600"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""

Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, 
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

root@smoker ~ #

I left out the USE line.  It needs cleaning.  lol  This is a list of the 
packages that have failed so far:

=sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.36.1
=sys-libs/glibc-2.11.3
=sys-devel/binutils-2.20.1-r1
=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5-r2
=dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r3
=app-arch/xz-utils-5.0.1
=app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6
=media-libs/libogg-1.2.0
=app-misc/pax-utils-0.2.2
=app-arch/cpio-2.11
=dev-libs/gmp-4.3.2
=app-text/libpaper-1.1.23
=media-libs/openjpeg-1.3-r3
=sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8
=app-portage/portage-utils-0.3.1
=dev-libs/nspr-4.8.7
=sys-libs/timezone-data-2011d
=media-libs/jbigkit-2.0-r1
=sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0
=sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.5
=dev-libs/libx86-1.1-r1
=sys-apps/sdparm-1.03
=media-libs/libdvbpsi-0.1.6
=dev-libs/libevent-2.0.10
=dev-libs/libdaemon-0.14-r1
=dev-libs/libusb-1.0.8
=media-libs/jpeg-8b
=dev-libs/libffi-3.0.9-r2
=sys-devel/patch-2.5.9
=sys-apps/which-2.20
=dev-util/gperf-3.0.4
=dev-lang/swig-1.3.40-r1
=sys-devel/m4-1.4.15
=media-libs/libpng-1.4.5
=app-arch/unzip-6.0-r1
=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.7
=dev-libs/mpfr-3.0.0_p3
=sys-apps/sandbox-2.4

It only has one gcc installed and it is selected:

root@smoker / # gcc-config -l
  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.4 *
root@smoker / #

Can anyone see what I am missing?  I got to be missing something.  It 
won't even do a emerge -e system right now.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)