Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Richard Torres]

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Alan, 
Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can get what I need out of it?

Thanks for your help,
-Richard

----- Original Message ----
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...


On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error (catch-22
> situation). Here's the last part of the error log which is the same
> with anything I try to emerge.

A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so 
small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar 
settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x

Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from a
 
stage 3 onto your system and use that

It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough 
gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known 
good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc, 
python, portage, tar and a shell

alan

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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> Alan,
> Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
> get what I need out of it?

Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your 
other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you 
need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it 
there. 

quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and 
bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge 
portage as well :-)

btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage 
usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that

alan


>
> Thanks for your help,
> -Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
> > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which
> > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
>
> A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
> small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar
> settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
>
> Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
> a
>
> stage 3 onto your system and use that
>
> It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
> good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc,
> python, portage, tar and a shell
>
> alan
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Richard Torres]

It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
python was blocking it so I unmerged it. 
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
'C compiler cannot create executables' error. 
I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.

gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
 [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp

Thanks-a-bunch

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> Alan,
> Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
> get what I need out of it?

Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your 
other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you 
need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it 
there. 

quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and 
bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge 
portage as well :-)

btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage 
usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that

alan


>
> Thanks for your help,
> -Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
> > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which
> > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
>
> A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
> small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar
> settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
>
> Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
> a
>
> stage 3 onto your system and use that
>
> It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
> good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc,
> python, portage, tar and a shell
>
> alan
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[James Ausmus]

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On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres <rtorres827@yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
> python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
> getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
> 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
> I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.


It may not be the C compiler at all. To check this copy the following code
into a file called test.c:



#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  printf("Hello World!\n");
  return 0;
}


And then run the following commands:

gcc test.c -o test
./test

If you see a Hello World! output, then your C compiler is working fine. If
this is the case, then you need to do as the original error message
specifies - check the config.log file. It should be located at
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php-5.2.5-r1/work/php-5.2.5/config.log

config.log files can be a little confusing to read through if you're not
used to them, but you'll just want to start at the bottom and work your way
up, until you find any error messages - or, you can post your
config.logfile, and someone can help you out with it.

HTH-

James






>
>
> gcc-config -l
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
>  [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
>  [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
>  [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
>  [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
>  [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp
>
> Thanks-a-bunch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > Alan,
> > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
> > get what I need out of it?
>
> Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your
> other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you
> need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it
> there.
>
> quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
> bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge
> portage as well :-)
>
> btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage
> usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that
>
> alan
>
>
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > -Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
> >
> > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> > > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
> > > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which
> > > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
> >
> > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
> > small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar
> > settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
> >
> > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
> > a
> >
> > stage 3 onto your system and use that
> >
> > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
> > good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc,
> > python, portage, tar and a shell
> >
> > alan
> >
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> --
> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>
> --
> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Richard Torres]

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Thanks for the input. 

I tried it on both of my Gentoo boxes. One worked and the problematic one
gave me the following output;

# gcc test.c -o test

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory

 

I'm going to try quickpkg again but this time from the working box. The
first pkg came from an older livecd.

 

If you think of anything please let me know. Thanks again.

 

-Richard

 

  _____  

From: James Ausmus [mailto:james.ausmus@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:22 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

 

 

On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres <rtorres827@yahoo.com> wrote:

It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a 
'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.


It may not be the C compiler at all. To check this copy the following code
into a file called test.c:



#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  printf("Hello World!\n");
  return 0;
}


And then run the following commands:

gcc test.c -o test
./test

If you see a Hello World! output, then your C compiler is working fine. If
this is the case, then you need to do as the original error message
specifies - check the config.log file. It should be located at
/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php- 5.2.5-r1/work/php-5.2.5/config.log

config.log files can be a little confusing to read through if you're not
used to them, but you'll just want to start at the bottom and work your way
up, until you find any error messages - or, you can post your config.log
file, and someone can help you out with it.

HTH-

James




 

 


gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4

 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp 
 [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp

Thanks-a-bunch


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com ]
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... 

On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> Alan,
> Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box 
> running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
> get what I need out of it?

Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your
other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you 
need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it
there.

quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge 
portage as well :-)

btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage
usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that

alan


>
> Thanks for your help, 
> -Richard
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create 
> > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
> > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which 
> > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
>
> A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
> small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar 
> settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
>
> Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
> a
>
> stage 3 onto your system and use that
>
> It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
> good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc, 
> python, portage, tar and a shell
>
> alan
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Gerald Lutter]

Hello Richard,

Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 schrieb Richard Torres:
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I tried it on both of my Gentoo boxes. One worked and the problematic one
> gave me the following output;
>
> # gcc test.c -o test
>
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory

this is because your binutils don't work. If your second machine has the same 
architecture try to quickpkg your binutils on this machine and install it on 
your problem box.

Gerald

>
>
> I'm going to try quickpkg again but this time from the working box. The
> first pkg came from an older livecd.
>
>
>
> If you think of anything please let me know. Thanks again.
>
>
>
> -Richard
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: James Ausmus [mailto:james.ausmus@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:22 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 9:13 AM, Richard Torres <rtorres827@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc and
> python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm working on
> getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge still fails with a
> 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
> I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.
>
>
> It may not be the C compiler at all. To check this copy the following code
> into a file called test.c:
>
>
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
>   printf("Hello World!\n");
>   return 0;
> }
>
>
> And then run the following commands:
>
> gcc test.c -o test
> ./test
>
> If you see a Hello World! output, then your C compiler is working fine. If
> this is the case, then you need to do as the original error message
> specifies - check the config.log file. It should be located at
> /var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/php- 5.2.5-r1/work/php-5.2.5/config.log
>
> config.log files can be a little confusing to read through if you're not
> used to them, but you'll just want to start at the bottom and work your way
> up, until you find any error messages - or, you can post your config.log
> file, and someone can help you out with it.
>
> HTH-
>
> James
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> gcc-config -l
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
>
>  [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
>  [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
>  [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
>  [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
>  [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp
>
> Thanks-a-bunch
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com ]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > Alan,
> > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I can
> > get what I need out of it?
>
> Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if your
> other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version you
> need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack it
> there.
>
> quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
> bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge
> portage as well :-)
>
> btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and portage
> usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that
>
> alan
>
> > Thanks for your help,
> > -Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
> >
> > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed.
> > > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error
> > > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which
> > > is the same with anything I try to emerge.
> >
> > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so
> > small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar
> > settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
> >
> > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball from
> > a
> >
> > stage 3 onto your system and use that
> >
> > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of known
> > good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, glibc,
> > python, portage, tar and a shell
> >
> > alan
> >
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> --
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Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc
> and python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm
> working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge
> still fails with a 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
> I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.
>
> gcc-config -l
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
>  [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
>  [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
>  [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
>  [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
>  [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp
>
> Thanks-a-bunch

Pleasw don't top post, especially not on a thread discussing technical 
fixes. Thanks.

This seems to be a relatively common problem - I had it once myself 
recently but forget the fix. Google turned up these interesting links:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27719
http://www.geektimes.com/linux/troubleshooting/c-cant-create-executables.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/c-compiler-cannot-create-executables-222588/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17033
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/c_compiler_cannot_create_executables.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27486
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-applications/25592-solved-compiler-can-not-create-executables.html


I would guess that you also unmerged some other important package like 
linux-headers, g++ or some such in the frenzy.

alan


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > Alan,
> > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I
> > can get what I need out of it?
>
> Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if
> your other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version
> you need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack
> it there.
>
> quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
> bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge
> portage as well :-)
>
> btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and
> portage usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that
>
> alan
>
> > Thanks for your help,
> > -Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
> >
> > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is
> > > installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same
> > > error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log
> > > which is the same with anything I try to emerge.
> >
> > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so
> > so small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with
> > similar settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
> >
> > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball
> > from a
> >
> > stage 3 onto your system and use that
> >
> > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of
> > known good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc,
> > glibc, python, portage, tar and a shell
> >
> > alan
> >
> > --
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> --
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RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

[Richard Torres]

Alan, 
I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet
anyway, give me time though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 2:08 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc
> and python was blocking it so I unmerged it.
> I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm
> working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge
> still fails with a 'C compiler cannot create executables' error.
> I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version.
>
> gcc-config -l
>  [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4
>  [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 *
>  [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened
>  [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie
>  [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp
>  [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp
>
> Thanks-a-bunch

Pleasw don't top post, especially not on a thread discussing technical 
fixes. Thanks.

This seems to be a relatively common problem - I had it once myself 
recently but forget the fix. Google turned up these interesting links:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27719
http://www.geektimes.com/linux/troubleshooting/c-cant-create-executables.htm
l
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/c-compiler-cannot-cre
ate-executables-222588/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17033
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/c_compiler_cannot_create_executables.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27486
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-applications/25592-solved-compiler-ca
n-not-create-executables.html


I would guess that you also unmerged some other important package like 
linux-headers, g++ or some such in the frenzy.

alan


>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
>
> On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > Alan,
> > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just
> > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box
> > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I
> > can get what I need out of it?
>
> Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if
> your other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version
> you need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack
> it there.
>
> quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and
> bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge
> portage as well :-)
>
> btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and
> portage usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that
>
> alan
>
> > Thanks for your help,
> > -Richard
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...
> >
> > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote:
> > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create
> > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is
> > > installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same
> > > error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log
> > > which is the same with anything I try to emerge.
> >
> > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so
> > so small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with
> > similar settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x
> >
> > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball
> > from a
> >
> > stage 3 onto your system and use that
> >
> > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough
> > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of
> > known good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc,
> > glibc, python, portage, tar and a shell
> >
> > alan
> >
> > --
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> --
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[gentoo-user] Re: unable to emerge anything...

[reader]

> Alan, 
> I'll check the links out. As for as unmerging anything else no. Not yet
> anyway, give me time though.

Richard, I recently had that same problem and I notice you are also
using the hardened profile.  

I don't remember exactly what I did but it involved re-compiling gcc
and making sure the `harened' use flag was cancelled (USE='-hardened')

I think I did something like boot from the minimal install iso and use
the compiler on it to chroot and compile a gcc without the hardened
flag. 

I don't remember now for sure... how I did it, but I am pretty sure
your gcc needs to be recompiled without the `hardened' flag.

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