Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 && python-updater

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 26 March 2011 20:53:50 Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
> >> I had nothing linked to libmpfr.so.1 so that wasn't the root cause/
> >> 
> >> In my case it seems to be driven by bugs like this:
> >> 
> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360425
> >> 
> >> Seems the only thing to do it just wait for devs to fix it. (And
> >> wonder why something like python-2.7 gets released as stable with
> >> stuff like this hanging about....)
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mark
> > 
> > The libmpfr change bit me on one of my amd64 machines. I did the
> > revdep-rebuild on the library and then gcc was broken. I recompiled
> > everything but still sandbox and gcc won't compile.
> > --
> > Bill Longman
> 
> Bill,
>    I got bit by the sandbox/gcc problem yesterday. In my case, on a
> machine with a KDE profile && after reviewing Gentoo bug reports, I
> did the following:
> 
> eselect profile set 1
> cd /lib
> ln -s ../lib32/ld-linux.so.2 .
> emerge sandbox
> emerge --sync
> emerge glibc
> emerge @preserved-rebuild
> eselect profile set 4
> emerge -e -j9 @system
> 
> and an hour later I was back to functional without those messages
> about not being able to build C programs, etc.
> 
> I don't suggest ANY of that is understood by the likes of me but it
> did seem to solve the problem which was (apparently) wrapped around
> some sort of missing link which allows 64-bit machines to run 32-bit
> programs. (Or that's about all I could get out of what I read....)
> 
> Hope this helps, and hoping someone more knowledgable than I chimes in
> with what I should have/could have done to do this more easily.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

I had a problem with it too (gcc would not compile) but that was because I was 
trying to emerge everything at the same time.  I slowed down, finished with 
the libmpfr revdep-rebuild and then run python updater, switched to python-2.7 
and run revdep-rebuild again.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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