Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Lord Sauron]

I fixed it.  Thank God that's over...  it was good to go back to the
command line a bit for me.  Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge
allergies I'm experiencing right now.

I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like
"emerge --unmerge gcc" ever again.  That was a huge mistake.  Rather,
I've found through this experience gcc-config.  Never knew that was
there...  much to my misfortune.

Thanks a lot for your help - Without you I'd have to reinstall, since
I'm not skilled enough to brave the world of a live-cd and chroot (I
think) into my drive to then install gcc.  At least, that's what I
think my next best option was...  I'm not at all familiar with chroot
though, so all I can do is speculate.  I think I'll go read its man
page now in celebration of the restoration of my system.

Also, right before I killed my system, I made something, a very very
elementary bash script (my first bash script - yay!) to toggle distcc
on and off.  It's NOT terribly advanced, but it's a start...  here it
is:

localhost ~ # cat /bin/ch_distcc
#!/bin/bash

# alternates between using make.conf and make.conf.other
# in other words, toggles between using distcc or not

# this should be where your make.conf lives.
MAKE_DIR="/etc/";

mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf "$MAKE_DIR"buffer
mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf
mv "$MAKE_DIR"buffer "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other

I know it's not terribly good, it assumes that make.conf and
make.conf.other are exactly the same - except for the distcc part in
FEATURES="".  But hey, it's something I can work on while chipping my
way through a excellent reference on bash I found and downloaded.

Thanks again for your help!
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