From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJyLU-0003pe-0x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4F67E0593; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50EB7E0593 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:50:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so244350ugf.49 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:50:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=7LS4jZWvrmLZ+zqz+t1hCWuBfab5y/QMMpXkUci3eKA=; b=xRX9DV+N41ZLqDCMZEzK2oj7i+c7Cpvek7rqLR+i8He6ftaV86tMN/vNi1a3bGlWKg8InfhqJdfHoyWE7nNC1klhCCimnmP0dq+IjHKYNLaJraMPDwk6EalheHfatf98PVYVNSswbl9Gzc6nEMabyy6Lcw+XuGWQHQRZRHEmjrE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=VsP0JualGDKe3kRR67PM5ZfhN6bo6KmZnIM+1zDHSwq5XQJsrVZ6Pt9DAnw6YSuoMlvGUB8DguSENlr/Ec6zC4qyE0TZzNRamLBe43iUamKkRBCtS5OPcx+xMG2r2DICoVDB2y2QzS/IsV0HECtp2FxEaHzC+j6f9O+A3RMQ/P8= Received: by 10.67.23.5 with SMTP id a5mr1983947ugj.8.1201643416644; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.local ( [41.243.235.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm1331198ugb.87.2008.01.29.13.50.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:50:15 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <642851.81992.qm@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200801290815.48300.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200801290815.48300.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801292350.09444.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8f24a283-367f-4351-b887-af7dd17ea7d5 X-Archives-Hash: 7763e40c1a6a80eade525fa574e91a50 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list