Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

[Daniel Frey]

On 03/26/18 06:19, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I have a four-core 64-bit Celeron box with 4GB RAM, on which I've just
> installed a standard XFCE system on the desktop profile. It all went as
> expected, but when I ran an emerge -e world at the end I had two failures:
> both glibc and sandbox failed with the error in the subject line.
>
> It's some years since I last saw this error, and I'm stuck. I've looked
> through /etc hoping to find something skew-whiff, and I've compared the
> environment with this box's, but nothing stands out.
>
> Finally, following the hint in the portage output, I ran "FEATURES='-sandbox -
> usersandbox' emerge -1 --color n sandbox". It made no discernible difference.
>
> I've attached the logs etc from sandbox.
>
> Has anyone a clue?
>

I ran into this some time ago and one of the updates removed the /lib ->
/lib64 symlink.

I simply ran `ln -s /lib64 /lib` and it was fine after that.

Dan