Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

[Teresa and Dale]

Lord Sauron wrote:

> I fixed it.  Thank God that's over...  it was good to go back to the
> command line a bit for me.  Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge
> allergies I'm experiencing right now.
>
> I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like
> "emerge --unmerge gcc" ever again.  That was a huge mistake.  Rather,
> I've found through this experience gcc-config.  Never knew that was
> there...  much to my misfortune.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help - Without you I'd have to reinstall, since
> I'm not skilled enough to brave the world of a live-cd and chroot (I
> think) into my drive to then install gcc.  At least, that's what I
> think my next best option was...  I'm not at all familiar with chroot
> though, so all I can do is speculate.  I think I'll go read its man
> page now in celebration of the restoration of my system.
>
> Also, right before I killed my system, I made something, a very very
> elementary bash script (my first bash script - yay!) to toggle distcc
> on and off.  It's NOT terribly advanced, but it's a start...  here it
> is:
>
> localhost ~ # cat /bin/ch_distcc
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # alternates between using make.conf and make.conf.other
> # in other words, toggles between using distcc or not
>
> # this should be where your make.conf lives.
> MAKE_DIR="/etc/";
>
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf "$MAKE_DIR"buffer
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf
> mv "$MAKE_DIR"buffer "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other
>
> I know it's not terribly good, it assumes that make.conf and
> make.conf.other are exactly the same - except for the distcc part in
> FEATURES="".  But hey, it's something I can work on while chipping my
> way through a excellent reference on bash I found and downloaded.
>
> Thanks again for your help!


I recently changed mine to this:

> # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of
> #     these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non-
> #     developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on setting for the
> emerge
> #     flag of the same name. It causes binary packages to be created
> of all
> #     packages that are merged.
> FEATURES="buildpkg ccache sandbox"


It sort of helps me in case I screw up.  It happens sometimes, usually
when we least expect it too.

Glad you got it working.

Dale
:-)  :-) 

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