Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hi, Mike.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:03:46AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> On 4/27/2011 8:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo.

> > I got the error message

> >     gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'

> > whilst trying to emerge something.  Running gcc-config myself
> > # gcc-config -l, I get back this error message:

> >      * gcc-config: Active gcc profile is invalid!
> >      [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5

> > .  4.4.5 is indeed the version of my gcc package.  This got updated very
> > recently.

> > What is a "gcc profile"?  Where can I find it, and what do I need to do
> > to make it valid?

> Your gcc profile is a set of gcc specs and symlinks to a specific gcc
> version, since you can have more than one. The error just means
> gcc-config didn't get run properly before uninstalling your previous
> version of gcc.

OK.

> Run gcc-config to set your profile to the one you have listed:

> # gcc-config 1

Done that.  It works.  Thanks!

> You will get the error every time you run gcc-config until you set a
> valid profile; after that it should go away and builds should work again.

> --Mike

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).