On 04-06-2019 17:19:21 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear All, > > The installation is getting near completion. Unfortunately portage > seems to be compiling gcc 9.1.0-r1 a second time for good > measure......
This is expected behaviour. After all packages are brought in, it finishes with an emerge -e world to ensure everything is "clean", that is, not pointing to, or using programs or libraries from outside the prefix. Fabian > > Regards MF > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:38, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Michael, > > > > Just to elaborate a bit. There is a newer version of m4, that is > > attempted first. However, newer versions of GNU software now require > > the xz decompressor to unpack. In your scenario, an old version of m4 > > is being compiled. One of the reasons for choosing an older version is > > because of not being able to unpack the newer versions due to lack of > > xz. Odd though, as the latest m4 (1.4.18) is also available as .gz and > > bz2. > > > > We'd need a larger part of the stage1 log to see why the newer versions > > didn't work. > > > > Fabian > > > > > > On 04-06-2019 11:10:47 +0100, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 11:01, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Can you confirm you don't have xz tool available on your system? > > > > > > Many thanks for the response. I am not sure if xz utils is installed > > > by default in debian: > > > > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xz-utils > > > > > > I will log in to the debian install and check. > > > > > > Regards and thanks > > > > > > MF > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Fabian > > > > -- > > > > Fabian Groffen > > > > Gentoo on a different level > > > > > > > -- > > Fabian Groffen > > Gentoo on a different level > -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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