Re: [gentoo-user] Help, please! I've hosed my gcc.

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> Hi, Mark
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:06:32PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
>> > --
>> > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
>
>
>
>> gcc-config -l
>
>> and see what's there
>
> Ah - gcc-config.  I did gcc-config -l, and it displayed 2 versions of
> gcc.  Then I did gcc-config --help.  Then I did
>
>    gcc-config x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3
>
> , and now gcc is working again, or more precisely the new one is working.
> :-)  Thanks for the tip!
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Happy to help and very glad it worked out.

Cheers,
Mark