Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge sandbox

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On  6 Nov, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Recent versions of portage have suggested an emerge -e world, so I thought 
> I'd try it. It got as far as sandbox, which failed with the once-common "C 
> compiler cannot create executables" error. Of course I 
> tried "FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox" but that failed with the same 
> error.
> 
> I wondered what is set wrongly in my environment, so I booted a minimal 
> installation CD and chrooted into the system, but with the same result.
> 
> Can anyone suggest where my problem might lie? I've attached the log file. 
> I'm confused by the apparent references in it to the cross-compiler. Google 
> seems to have only old references.
> 
> This is a dual-Opteron box with a mostly-amd64 setup - only a few packages 
> are ~amd64. I'm also running an emerge -eq world on another amd64 box, 
> which has had no problem with sandbox. Same versions of portage and sandbox 
> on both machines.
> 

The lines
configure:2292: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=opteron -O2 -pipe   conftest.c  >&5
/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

look like a misconfigured gcc.

Can you emerge any package which requires the C-compiler?
Try 
gcc-config -l
and look which gcc is selected and if you can select a different one.
Then - with this one selected - reemerge the probably newer 
version of gcc which was broken.

I hope this helps,
Helmut.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany