[gentoo-user] C++ missing

[Mike Kenny]

I am trying to install gentoo from the web by following the steps in the 
  Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook for a stage 1 install. This works well up to 
a point.

When I execute
# emerge --emptytree system
after some time the process terminates with a message similar to

cd ../obj_s;   -I../c++ -I../include 
-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r6/work/ncurses-5.4/c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H 
-I/var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r6/work/ncurses-5.4/c++/../include -I. 
-I../include  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNDEBUG -O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer 
-fPIC -c /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r6/work/ncurses-5.4/c++/cursesf.cc
/bin/sh: line 1: -I../c++: No such file or directory
make: *** [../obj_s/cursesf.o] Error 127

(I say similar because the output above is from executing make within 
the relevant directory -var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r6/work/narrowc/c++)

Inspecting the Makefile shows that there is no value defind for CXX. As 
g++ does not appear to exist within my chrooted environment I did 
attempt to set this to gcc, but this failed with a notice the c++ was 
not installed.

I believe I must have messed up something in creating my chroot 
environment as g++ exists elsewhere. But I can't figure what that might 
have been.

I have also tried executing the instructions for installing gcc 3.4 in 
the hope that this would give me a c++ compiler, but this failed with 
the same error as above.

Any ideas on how I should proceed? I am loathe to restart as a) I don't 
yet see what I can do differently and b) I have a 2GB cap on my 
bandwidth for December and have already used over 25% of this.

Thanks,

-- 
mike kenny
Linux Registered User #381724
LPI ID# 80080

"Hell, there are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something"
                                                        Thomas Edison
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