Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:

> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> My gcc now fails to work.
>
> I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync.  I
> can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both
> of them.
>
> lipgmp has a lot to do with my problem.  After my last emerge -uND
> world, I think libgmp was upgraded.  At any rate the messages on the
> screen directed me to
>
>     revdep-rebuild --library /usr/libt64/libgmp.so.3
>
> , which I did.  They then informed me I could safely delete libgmp.so.3,
> which I also did.  :-(
>
> Now, when I attempt gcc on the command line, I get the error:
>
>     /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/cc1: error while loading
>     shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No
>     such file or directory
>
> .  So, is there an easy way for me to recover a working gcc, or do I
> have to do something desperate, like reinstalling Gentoo?  :-(
>
> Help will be most appreciated.
>
Do you have a backup?

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