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