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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" FIXED
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:27:57 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <938065.36339.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801292350.09444.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>


--- Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mick wrote:
> 
> > Retrace your steps and follow the guide on this
> one.  I'm sure that
> > you can recover if you ended up with no gcc, but
> don't know off hand
> > what it takes to do it.  (I am sure that the
> forums are full of
> > suggestions for this problem).
> 
> Easy. Grab any old gcc tarball from an install cd,
> use emerge to unpack 
> this as a binpkg. This gives you a probably less
> than optimum but 
> working gcc, which can be used to build the desired
> gcc. Then unmerge 
> the unpacked one.
> 
> 

It wasn't gcc. See Volker's reply to "leapfrogging versions"


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 22:03 [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world dies: "Unable to build" maxim wexler
2008-01-28 22:25 ` Mick
2008-01-29  0:23   ` maxim wexler
2008-01-29  0:42     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-01-29  1:52       ` maxim wexler
2008-01-29  8:15     ` Mick
2008-01-29 21:50       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-01-29 22:27         ` maxim wexler [this message]
2008-01-29 15:13 ` [gentoo-user] Chinese reader needed WAS " maxim wexler
2008-01-29 15:35   ` Willie Wong

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