I seem to have most of my problems with updating for the first time in a

year resolved (see below for one outstanding issue).

Thanks to all those who assissted.

 

Here's what I did. The order may not be as I did them. Also I'm not sure

if they were all necessary, the stage2 bit for example.

 

1. Linked make.profile to the new dir

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 48 Sep 24 13:21 /etc/make.profile ->

/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1

 

2. Downloaded and unpacked the stage2 tarball[Rupert Young] . I first backed
up /etc and var/lib/portage and then restored them after.

 

3. Re-emerged the gentoo toolkit: gcc-config glibc binutils libstdc++

 

4. Used gcc-config to point to the latest gcc

 

5. Updated env with

      etc-update 

      env-update 

      source /etc/profile

 

6. Did all the updates I could think of 

      emerge --sync

      emerge -u portage

      emerge -upDv world

      emerge -uDv world

      emerge -upv system

      emerge -uv system

 

Now everything is in sync and up to date. However, the old gcc is still

being picked somehow when trying to  emerge -av net-im/gaim. It should

be pointing to 3.4.4. Any ideas where this is being set? What is the

gentoo equivalent of the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH?

 

grep: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/libstdc++.la: No such file

or directory

/bin/sed: can't read

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/libstdc++.la: No such file or

directory

libtool: link: `/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/libstdc++.la' is

not a valid libtool archive

make[2]: *** [libenchant_aspell.la] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory

`/var/tmp/portage/enchant-1.1.6/work/enchant-1.1.6/src/aspell'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory

`/var/tmp/portage/enchant-1.1.6/work/enchant-1.1.6/src'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

 

!!! ERROR: app-text/enchant-1.1.6 failed.

 

Rupert Young