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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Steve wrote:


> checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
> cannot create executables
> check `config.log' for details.

> I presume that this is a profile issue - but I'm unclear what the fault
> might be... I'm reluctant to continue hacking as, I suspect, I'm more
> likely to break things than stumble across an appropriate fix.
>
> Can anyone tell me why emerge is having such a problem with my compiler
> - and, hopefully, ideally, how best to resolve this?
>

yes, don't use locate. Also check the symlinks. Reset them with eselect gcc if 
you have to.

Then try all your emerges with --tree you get a lot more helpfull output. 
Also, when a dependency is missing revdep-rebuilt loves to fail. You can hunt 
that down with --tree or just re--emerging the stuff.