On Wednesday 09 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > It's all a blur. It was trying to re-emerge something related to gcc > and python was blocking it so I unmerged it. > I've got python back using quickpkg like you suggested. Now I'm > working on getting gcc to work. I did a quickpkg on gcc but emerge > still fails with a 'C compiler cannot create executables' error. > I'm pretty sure I'm using a working version. > > gcc-config -l > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4 > [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4 * > [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardened > [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopie > [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednopiessp > [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.4-hardenednossp > > Thanks-a-bunch
Pleasw don't top post, especially not on a thread discussing technical fixes. Thanks. This seems to be a relatively common problem - I had it once myself recently but forget the fix. Google turned up these interesting links: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27719 http://www.geektimes.com/linux/troubleshooting/c-cant-create-executables.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/c-compiler-cannot-create-executables-222588/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17033 http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/c_compiler_cannot_create_executables.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27486 http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-applications/25592-solved-compiler-can-not-create-executables.html I would guess that you also unmerged some other important package like linux-headers, g++ or some such in the frenzy. alan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 1:51 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > Alan, > > Thanks for that. It's funny you should mention python, I just > > inadvertently unmerged it (doh...). I've got another gentoo box > > running a newer version of gcc and a newer kernel. Do you think I > > can get what I need out of it? > > Yes, you should be able to use that. Python is SLOTted, so even if > your other box is using a different SLOT, you can emerge the version > you need, quickpkg it, copy it over to the first machine and unpack > it there. > > quickpkg's are just tarballs so you can even use good old tar and > bunzip2 if you managed to go to the next step of dohness and unmerge > portage as well :-) > > btw, how did you manage to unmerge python? That's in system and > portage usually goes to great lengths to prevent you doing just that > > alan > > > Thanks for your help, > > -Richard > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create > > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is > > > installed. I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same > > > error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log > > > which is the same with anything I try to emerge. > > > > A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so > > so small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with > > similar settings to you can send their tbz2 of gcc-3.3.6.x > > > > Alternatively, you might be able to unpack a working gcc tarball > > from a > > > > stage 3 onto your system and use that > > > > It doesn't help you right now, but I've managed to screw up enough > > gentoo systems enough times that I now keep quickpkg copies of > > known good working critical packages in $PKGDIR - minimally gcc, > > glibc, python, portage, tar and a shell > > > > alan > > > > -- > > Alan McKinnon > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
