On 07/03/2017 22:00, White, Phil wrote: > On 7 March 2017 at 19:38, Neil Bothwick <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Please don't top post, it is disliked on this list. > > > Sorry - a consequence of moving away from a proper mail client, and on > to a web-based thing. > > > If you copied over /var/db/pkg you have a rather confused and messed up > system. The safest way to recreate it is probably to move the pkg > directory elsewhere and then run "emerge -e @world". > > > Yep! I think that would be a polite way of putting it! ;) > > > gcc is slotted, so emerging 4.9.4 will not touch your 5.4.0 > installation, > you use gcc-config to choose which one to use. What does gcc-config -l > show? > > > Just the one line: > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 > > I *think*, that with little time and patience, I can now sort this out. > Thanks for the emerge -e hint. It doesn't seem to be in the emerge man > page, though. What is the long-option name?
I'm too lazy to look it up myself and long ago stopping trying to remember minutia, but search the man page for "empty". That's where it is :-) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
