From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-138327-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1SUDpC-000401-6l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 09:13:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 718EDE0824; Tue, 15 May 2012 09:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF228E0824 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2012 09:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.wonkology.org (xdsl-84-44-155-51.netcologne.de [84.44.155.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B25C9DC041 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 15 May 2012 11:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:11:39 +0200 From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install Message-ID: <20120515111139.7433de38@weird.wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <82475EBE-AC08-41D1-93DC-DB90ED79EE79@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <loom.20120514T205023-436@post.gmane.org> <82475EBE-AC08-41D1-93DC-DB90ED79EE79@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 13b7884e-ac99-46ce-9039-5dfd18e71ed8 X-Archives-Hash: ba8b363b66b3f0caf928291e77956920 Stroller writes: > I boot from a SystemRescueCD and follow the Gentoo quick install guide. > > This has never failed me. For me it did, half a year ago, several packages failed to build due to strange libtool errors. It took me some days until I found the solution: unset path. Libtool uses this variable without unsetting it before, and SystemRescueCD defines it as environment variable, which is still available in the chroot. This messed things up a lot. Apart from that, I really like SystemRescueCD. Wonko