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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" FIXED
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:28:00
Message-Id: 938065.36339.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" by Alan McKinnon
1 --- Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote:
4 >
5 > > Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this
6 > one. I'm sure that
7 > > you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but
8 > don't know off hand
9 > > what it takes to do it. (I am sure that the
10 > forums are full of
11 > > suggestions for this problem).
12 >
13 > Easy. Grab any old gcc tarball from an install cd,
14 > use emerge to unpack
15 > this as a binpkg. This gives you a probably less
16 > than optimum but
17 > working gcc, which can be used to build the desired
18 > gcc. Then unmerge
19 > the unpacked one.
20 >
21 >
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23 It wasn't gcc. See Volker's reply to "leapfrogging versions"
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