Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

[daid kahl]

 When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it out, but
 forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3. Hence some
 improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving my safe cflags a
 go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I realized that -msse3
 didn't belong. Fixed it, emerge -uDNe world, and now emerge --sync works!
 Based on this experience, I would submit that if you're running Gentoo and
 seeing SIGILL, double checking your march and your cflags would be a pretty
 good place to start.
 Alexander Clark

Just for anyone who might be keyword searching, you should guess it
might be cflags when you get the error cannot make executables.  Gotta
love compilers that can't compile anything!

~daid

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] troubles with emerge --sync

[Alexander Clark]

Really late post on this, but an emphasis on march settings is  
warranted.


This will totally bungle all kinds of compiling.


Daid, thanks for your input. I keep an extra line of 'safe' cflags  
commented out, which saved the day in this case.


If it helps anyone, here's what the [continuing] problem was:

When I figured out that I was using the wrong march, I switched it  
out, but forgot to look over the cflags, which still contained -msse3.  
Hence some improvement but not a total fix. I was thinking of giving  
my safe cflags a go, when, looking at them and at my regular cflags, I  
realized that -msse3 didn't belong. Fixed it, emerge -uDNe world, and  
now emerge --sync works!


Based on this experience, I would submit that if you're running Gentoo  
and seeing SIGILL, double checking your march and your cflags would be  
a pretty good place to start.


Alexander Clark