On Monday, 26 March 2018 15:34:30 BST Dale wrote: > I did some googling on this.
Thanks. Looks like you turned something up that I didn't. > I seem to recall running into this once to > but can't recall what I did to fix it. Sorry, I'm getting older. > Anyway, check how /tmp is mounted, or whatever directory you have > portage's work directory on. It seems that sometimes it may not be > mounted correctly. I also found a somewhat recent post on the forums > that mentioned disabling the pie USE flag. I'm assuming that would be > for gcc. Posting link to forum to see if it makes more sense to you. > > If none of that helps, maybe someone else will come along with something > else to try. > > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1073552-start-0.html I did what it suggested but it didn't help. > https://www.howtoforge.com/community/threads/error-cannot-run-c-compiled-pro > grams.44647/ You and Andres mentioned tmp directories. I have a sepaate partition for /var/ tmp/portage, so I tried remounting it with specifice options rw and exec; I also tried just unmounting it. No change. -- Regards Peter.
