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From: Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:27:46
Message-Id: e5a3e9ac0605312218t658287bcyf9384ca2d70e0ffd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE! by Alan
1 On 5/31/06, Alan <alan@×××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote:
3 > > This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended.
4 > >
5 > > I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with
6 > > gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such
7 > > that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released.
8 > >
9 > > I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER emerging
10 > > gcc-3.4.4-r1. emerge --unmerge gcc-3.4.5 gcc-3.4.5-r1 (the only two
11 > > greater that 3.4.4 that I had installed).
12 > >
13 > > For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone. Totally.
14 > > Completely. Not there.
15 >
16 > Couple of things first. Does 'gcc-config -l' show anything (ie: a list
17 > of compilers still installed). Secondly, you can relatively easily
18
19 No, I must miserably admit that it does not list anything.
20
21 > restore a gcc by creating a binary package from another gentoo server
22 > (I forget the exact steps for this, basically you can dump all the files
23 > provided by an ebuild into a binary that you can install by simply
24 > untarring it in your /) or use the binary package that is on one of
25 > the install/complete CDs.
26
27 Is there a manual? This wouldn't have anything to do with GRP, would
28 it? I'm just throwing that out there as a guess since I think it was
29 GRP that installed Gentoo without compiling, something that saved me
30 soooo much time when installing.
31
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