Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 26 March 2018 15:34:30 BST Dale wrote:

> I did some googling on this.

Thanks. Looks like you turned something up that I didn't.

> I seem to recall running into this once to
> but can't recall what I did to fix it.  Sorry, I'm getting older.
> Anyway, check how /tmp is mounted, or whatever directory you have
> portage's work directory on.  It seems that sometimes it may not be
> mounted correctly.  I also found a somewhat recent post on the forums
> that mentioned disabling the pie USE flag.  I'm assuming that would be
> for gcc.  Posting link to forum to see if it makes more sense to you.
>
> If none of that helps, maybe someone else will come along with something
> else to try.
>
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1073552-start-0.html

I did what it suggested but it didn't help.

> https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/error-cannot-run-c-compiled-pro
> grams.44647/

You and Andres mentioned tmp directories. I have a sepaate partition for /var/
tmp/portage, so I tried remounting it with specifice options rw and exec; I 
also tried just unmounting it. No change.

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Regards
Peter.