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From: Richard Torres <rtorres827@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:58:48
Message-Id: 003c01c852e2$eec12120$0211030a@TALBOTGW
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... by Alan McKinnon
1 It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
2 python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
3 I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
4 getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
5 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
6 I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.
7
8 gcc-config -l
9 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
10 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
11 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
12 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
13 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
14 [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp
15
16 Thanks-a-bunch
17
18 -----Original Message-----
19 From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com]
20 Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
21 To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
22 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
23
24 On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
25 > Alan,
26 > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
27 > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
28 > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
29 > get what I need out of it?
30
31 Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your
32 other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you
33 need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it
34 there.
35
36 quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
37 bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge
38 portage as well :-)
39
40 btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage
41 usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that
42
43 alan
44
45
46 >
47 > Thanks for your help,
48 > -Richard
49 >
50 > ----- Original Message ----
51 > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
52 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
53 > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
54 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
55 >
56 > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
57 > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
58 > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
59 > > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
60 > > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which
61 > > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
62 >
63 > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
64 > small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar
65 > settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
66 >
67 > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
68 > a
69 >
70 > stage 3 onto your system and use that
71 >
72 > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
73 > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
74 > good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc,
75 > python, portage, tar and a shell
76 >
77 > alan
78 >
79 > --
80 > Alan McKinnon
81 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
82
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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... James Ausmus <james.ausmus@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>