I have been battling this weirdness for several months, and it has been getting worse and worse. Now I can't even unpack half the man pages.
The short of it is that a lot of binaries on my system are linked against gcc 3.4.9, even if I remerge them from scratch. It happened with gcc 4.2.2, I emerged 4.2.3 and it still happens. The most common broken binary is /usr/bin/lzma, which I have remerged several times since the 4.2.3 emerge to no avail. # ldd /usr/bin/lzma /usr/bin/lzma: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/bin/lzma) linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7e3a000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7e15000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7e09000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7cd4000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f63000) gcc-config is happy: # gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.3 * The bad symlinks for gcj components (reported by revdep-rebuild) have been fixed. There is an old gcc hanging around, which I have been tempted to move out of the way and see what happens, but I don't like broken unbootable systems. $ ll /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jun 12 2006 3.4.4 with the other two versions elsewhere: $ ll /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ total 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2464 Dec 27 15:07 4.1.2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2504 May 12 11:58 4.2.3 This is a ~x86 system. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list