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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next prev parent 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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