Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge sandbox

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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.
>
> I wondered what is set wrongly in my environment, so I booted a minimal
> installation CD and chrooted into the system, but with the same result.
>
> Can anyone suggest where my problem might lie? I've attached the log file.
> I'm confused by the apparent references in it to the cross-compiler. Google
> seems to have only old references.
>
> This is a dual-Opteron box with a mostly-amd64 setup - only a few packages
> are ~amd64. I'm also running an emerge -eq world on another amd64 box,
> which has had no problem with sandbox. Same versions of portage and sandbox
> on both machines.

/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such
file or directory

Could you try
locate crt1.o
?

By the way, why are you using gcc 4.2? I would either stick with the
stable gcc 4.1 or use gcc 4.3 (which is used by a number of recent
distributions, is used even in Debian Lenny - which should be released
shortly - and has a number of improvements)