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 ) id 1RQRGy-0001wx-NR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:14:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5B8321C058; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A795221C058 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so12772394vws.40 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:13:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GnchIgC0CS5tc+GuKBwqf1XJIWh4wxO3miTYb5uAirk=; b=QNJIoz0O/Y//ab6lwP+S8yldJd+ct7cPX1hucXcdf+DSaPFHG4CIrdj0xQZGQmlgSC 5aaBL868xZvjIn5A+dpASMiqy24d8Uc12q3CMNEqGcd9l+jKNs7HB4zLUb4nhh1Nhs20 p7w8oZhTlDSVtAPSoh52Q3l5trpl/J5cq3Q7U= Received: by 10.224.173.199 with SMTP id q7mr3364048qaz.21.1321395195162; Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-124-88.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.124.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fm5sm8844255qab.20.2011.11.15.14.13.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:13:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EC2E3F8.7050405@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:13:12 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc. References: <20111115214400.GA22507@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20111115214400.GA22507@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 48dc0d7d-0365-4372-ba71-18239237bfe6 X-Archives-Hash: f4afb210a75d95dccdf34054f798896d Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > My gcc now fails to work. > > I upgraded it earlier on (I think) after doing an emerge --sync. I > can't remember the before/after versions, or even whether I've got both > of them. > > lipgmp has a lot to do with my problem. After my last emerge -uND > world, I think libgmp was upgraded. At any rate the messages on the > screen directed me to > > revdep-rebuild --library /usr/libt64/libgmp.so.3 > > , which I did. They then informed me I could safely delete libgmp.so.3, > which I also did. :-( > > Now, when I attempt gcc on the command line, I get the error: > > /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/cc1: error while loading > shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No > such file or directory > > . So, is there an easy way for me to recover a working gcc, or do I > have to do something desperate, like reinstalling Gentoo? :-( > > Help will be most appreciated. > Check to make sure a gcc is selected: gcc-config -l Sometimes if a old version is removed the link is sort of left dangling in the wind. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!