Re: [gentoo-user] I messed up my gcc upgrade, badly I think.

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Use LD_PRELOAD

get your missing lib and:

gcc-config <# of version>
fix_libtools.sh old_gcc_version
"LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libstdc++.so.5 emerge sys-libs/libstdc++-v3"

BillK




On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 16:25 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
> 
> >
> >Yep, that is pretty hosed. ;->
> >
> >You can find a libstdc++.so.5 binary in the stage tarballs on the
> >Gentoo CD, or KNOPPIX, or maybe on one of your other systems.  Just
> >copy it to /usr/lib, and you should be able to run portage.
> >
> >You could also try symlinking .5 to .6.  That is a trick that has
> >worked for me with some libraries, but there are no guarantees there.
> >
> >-Richard
> >
> >  
> >
> I'm going to give that a try.  I looked on my old rig and it is in 
> something like /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6.  It didn't work 
> then either.  Maybe your way is the correct way.  Some symlink thing or 
> something.  I have copies though.  I have two installs, one up to date 
> and one a few months old. 
> 
> It's funny that the new KDE won't let me copy over fish.  I get a error 
> message though.  I have to login to KDE 3.4 to copy over files to my 
> servers.  Strange huh?  Guess that is why it is masked.  Guess it is why 
> I'm not cleaning out KDE 3.4 too. 
> 
> Thanks for the help.  It sort of sucks right now.  :(
> 
> Dale
> :-)
> 
> -- 
> To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
> 
> I have four rigs:
> 
> 1:  Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives.
> 2:  Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive.
> 3:  Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive.
> 4:  Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive.
> 
> All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.  
> 
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