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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build"
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:50:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801292350.09444.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801290815.48300.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote:

> Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this one.  I'm sure that
> you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but don't know off hand
> what it takes to do it.  (I am sure that the forums are full of
> suggestions for this problem).

Easy. Grab any old gcc tarball from an install cd, use emerge to unpack 
this as a binpkg. This gives you a probably less than optimum but 
working gcc, which can be used to build the desired gcc. Then unmerge 
the unpacked one.


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Alan McKinnon
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 22:03 [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" maxim wexler
2008-01-28 22:25 ` Mick
2008-01-29  0:23   ` maxim wexler
2008-01-29  0:42     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-01-29  1:52       ` maxim wexler
2008-01-29  8:15     ` Mick
2008-01-29 21:50       ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-01-29 22:27         ` [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" FIXED maxim wexler
2008-01-29 15:13 ` [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" maxim wexler
2008-01-29 15:35   ` Willie Wong

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