On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@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 <a...@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
