Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems customizing gentoo

[Drake Donahue <donahue95@comcast.net>]

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 19:42 -0500, Rick Meredith wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2008 04:35:03 pm Greg wrote:
> > I've been having problems customizing gentoo on my Acer Aspire T180-UA380B
> > AMD Desktop PC.
> >
> > I've been using i686 versions of gentoo for years on my pentium3 with no
> > problems.
> >
> > Here are further specs and what I've tried:
> >
> >    Acer Aspire T180-UA380B AMD Desktop PC - AMD Athlon 64
> >    3800+ 2.4GHz, 2GB DDR2, 160GB SATA, DL DVD±RW, Gigabit LAN, Flash
> >    Reader, running off of a 2007.0 AMD64 live cd chrooted environment.
> >
> > I keep running into the same issue no matter what USE flags I have
> > specified in make.conf, what make.profile I have specified (attempted
> > 2007.0, 2008.0, hardened, 2007.0 x86 under a 32bit chrooted environment and
> > chost set accordingly in make.conf.
> >
> > The error I get follows:
> >  * ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1 failed.
> >  * Call stack:
> >  * ebuild.sh, line 49:  Called src_compile
> >  * environment, line 3362:  Called eblit-run 'src_compile'
> >  * environment, line 1087:  Called eblit-glibc-src_compile
> >  * src_compile.eblit, line 181:  Called toolchain-glibc_src_compile
> >  * src_compile.eblit, line 122:  Called die
> >  * The specific snippet of code:
> >  * make PARALLELMFLAGS="${MAKEOPTS}" || die "make for ${ABI} failed"
> >  * The die message:
> >  * make for default failed
> >  *
> >  * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
> > relevant. * A complete build log is located at
> > '/var/log/portage/sys-libs:glibc-2.6.1:20081002-111002.log'. * The ebuild
> > environment file is located at
> > '/var/build/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.6.1/temp/environment'. *
> >
> > If I start off with a stage3-amd64-2007.0 tarvol, don't try to customize my
> > system by trying to make a stage1, and just do emerge --update system, I
> > end up with errors upgrading grep regarding libpcre.
> >
> > Anythoughts would be greatly appreciated as I've been struggling with this
> > for months trying to find a solution.
> >
> > If I need to provide more information or need to post this to a more
> > appropriate list, please let me know.
> >
> > Very best,
> > Greg Osborne
> 
> What do you have in your "/etc/make.conf"
> 
> Regards Rick
> 
TRY using 2008.0 minimal livecd following the handbook in detail as
though you were a gentoo first timer. A lot of knowledge is also a
dangerous thing.