From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCs29-0000rD-8n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:41:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D99FAE01D0; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp103.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp103.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.236]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11555E01CF for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 52770 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2008 07:40:21 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:From:To:References:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:X-MimeOLE:Thread-Index; b=uSh9As2/pMrfszLUi1+FR01M7SrRfvx3Amx/y60DPqH6Sm5Q0P7xC9dAz1YJBeo9PW1tJTPD48U3PQCAg2MGtkCaxkeM/I1KwM/sZ67kkN4zKp3Mm+ajcUq7J7vgjTU/WgbcS1qj/oDor5QueBjUybjEcefYsd0AdwS4TsHH/Eo= ; Received: from unknown (HELO TALBOTGW) (rtorres827@71.42.151.98 with login) by smtp103.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2008 07:40:21 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Ari_BAgVM1mSdiZWPc6sW9WdixP9HDfzr7lzsjLAA8JYVcVTYzqW5AyDuuSo_bknXPEqrEtCADRQEvk6WK0kNGakaoUckQkDpaOXllXkKAuul81xrLI- From: "Richard Torres" To: References: <291830.46394.qm@web53710.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <200801060950.54978.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <003c01c852e2$eec12120$0211030a@TALBOTGW> <200801092207.42148.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:40:11 -0600 Message-ID: <004b01c8535c$0886fca0$0211030a@TALBOTGW> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <200801092207.42148.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Thread-Index: AchS/IqQK0csE5ETT4WJKuTIkuo1eAAXwT0g X-Archives-Salt: d73d4c5a-1a77-4e81-b445-1af07a19e583 X-Archives-Hash: 35de63ceb4f42bd554bc8fb53f95ddd5 Alan, I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet anyway, give me time though. -----Original Message----- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:08 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc > and python was blocking it so I unmerged it. > I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm > working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge > still fails with a 'C compiler cannot create executables' error. > I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version. > > gcc-config -l > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4 > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 * > [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened > [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie > [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp > [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp > > Thanks-a-bunch Pleasw don't top post, especially not on a thread discussing technical fixes. Thanks. This seems to be a relatively common problem - I had it once myself recently but forget the fix. Google turned up these interesting links: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27719 http://www.geektimes.com/linux/troubleshooting/c-cant-create-executables.htm l http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/c-compiler-cannot-cre ate-executables-222588/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17033 http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/c_compiler_cannot_create_executables.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27486 http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-applications/25592-solved-compiler-ca n-not-create-executables.html I would guess that you also unmerged some other important package like linux-headers, g++ or some such in the frenzy. alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > Alan, > > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just > > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box > > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I > > can get what I need out of it? > > Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if > your other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version > you need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack > it there. > > quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and > bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge > portage as well :-) > > btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and > portage usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that > > alan > > > Thanks for your help, > > -Richard > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Alan McKinnon > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create > > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is > > > installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same > > > error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log > > > which is the same with anything I try to emerge. > > > > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so > > so small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with > > similar settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x > > > > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball > > from a > > > > stage 3 onto your system and use that > > > > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough > > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of > > known good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, > > glibc, python, portage, tar and a shell > > > > alan > > > > -- > > Alan McKinnon > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list