Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo falling apart for me after either abandoning trying to install "Kolab" as overlay - or after upgrading to default/linux/x86/10.0
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:49:48
Message-Id: 358eca8f0911050849q6fbb3f1ek870b92fe3b8aadff@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo falling apart for me after either abandoning trying to install "Kolab" as overlay - or after upgrading to default/linux/x86/10.0 by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 2009/11/5 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>:
2 > On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Steve wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
6 >> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
7 >> cannot create executables
8 >> check `config.log' for details.
9 >
10 >> I presume that this is a profile issue - but I'm unclear what the fault
11 >> might be... I'm reluctant to continue hacking as, I suspect, I'm more
12 >> likely to break things than stumble across an appropriate fix.
13 >>
14 >> Can anyone tell me why emerge is having such a problem with my compiler
15 >> - and, hopefully, ideally, how best to resolve this?
16 >>
17 >
18 > yes, don't use locate. Also check the symlinks. Reset them with eselect gcc if
19 > you have to.
20 >
21 > Then try all your emerges with --tree you get a lot more helpfull output.
22 > Also, when a dependency is missing revdep-rebuilt loves to fail. You can hunt
23 > that down with --tree or just re--emerging the stuff.
24
25 If you removed gcc for some reason in your depclean largesse you may
26 need to use a LiveCD or restore the binary from a backup - I'm sure
27 that this has been raised before in this M/L but I am not sure how
28 hard it may be to find the thread. Hopefully, one of the gurus will
29 chime in on how to go about recovering your system.
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick