Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from gcc-3.4.5 to gcc-3.4.6-r1

[Darren Grant <dgrant@monstertech.ca>]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Darren Grant <dgrant@monstertech.ca> wrote:
>> Any chance that's what's causing my gcc problems now?
>
> Hmm, I doubt it.  But in comparing what you have posted to my AMD64
> box, I see some things that don't look right.  For example, on my
> AMD64 box, I have:
>
> Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0
> Portage 2.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla,
> glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16 x86_64)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.6.16 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 
> 4400+
>
> Notice my profile is default-linux/amd64/<something>, where you have
> your profile as just default-linux/amd64.  I'm not sure that is
> actually supported...and may in fact be the cause of your trouble.
>
> The new profiles (starting with 2005.1) are "multilib" by default, so
> for example merging glibc will try to build both i686 and x86_64
> versions.  So it is in fact perfectly reasonble for an emerge of glibc
> to try to build a i686 version, but *only* if you are using a multilib
> profile.  Similarly gcc would try to build i686 versions of its
> libraries, but would require an i686 glibc to be available first.
>
> I suspect what you need to do is:
>
> cd /etc
> rm make.profile
> ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1/no-multilib
>
> Then try re-merging glibc and gcc.
>
> If you want to switch to the multilib profile, the symlink should be
> to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1 or 2006.0.  But
> you might want to ask on gentoo-amd64 about how to switch from
> no-multilib to a multilib profile...
>
> -Richard
Didn't seem to help... I can emerge certain packages, but still can't 
re-merge gcc and glibc.

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