On Thursday 06 November 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recent versions of portage have suggested an emerge -e world, so I thought
> I'd try it. It got as far as sandbox, which failed with the once-common "C
> compiler cannot create executables" error. Of course I
> tried "FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox" but that failed with the same
> error.

Try this syntax:

FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge sandbox

Also, do you have userpriv in your portage FEATURES?  May need to remove it 
too for this purpose.
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Regards,
Mick