I had the same yesterday - run: > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.3/ ldconfig > to fix your system. > > Thanx to chithanh for this life-saving oneliner > (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7053126.html). > > Greetings, > Daniel > > That didnt help the gcc-config error, and also i notice that there's bits of 4.7.2 still around; # ls -l /lib64/libgcc* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 88720 May 16 21:13 /lib64/libgcc_s-4.7.2-20121109.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 17 01:19 /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 -> libgcc_s-4.7.2-20121109.so.1