did you figure this out I also have this problem.. I would love to finish my install ;)
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:18:10 +0000, Jim Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just started setting up a new machine to replace an old PIII. > > I booted off the minimal LiveCD and started with a stage 1 tarball. > I checked the md5sum before untarring it so I am sure it's OK. > > I edited etc/make.conf to set CPUTYPE to have -march=pentium4 and > -pipe. > > I set USE to "dvd alsa cdr". I did the locale stuff in code > listing 10 in section 6.a of the install guide. > > I did the optional "bootstrap.sh -f" in code listing 13 of 6.c. > When I then did just bootstrap.sh it said that that it had already > been done and did I want to do it again. When I confirmed it came > back with "nothing to do", taking no time, contrary to the manual > which suggests this should take some time. > > When I then ran "emerge system" it failed quite early on. These > were the final few lines (copied by hand): > > >checking how to run the C++ preprocessor .. /lib/cpp > >configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > >see config.log for more details > >configure: error: /bin/sh ./configure failed for autoconf-lib-link > > > >!!!ERROR sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r2 failed > > I couldn't find a config.log in any obvious place. > > What to do now? > > Unless anyone has any ideas I will repeat the install, leaving out the > "bootstrap.sh -f" stage, in case that had anything to do with it. > > A couple of other funnies: mirrorselect failed with (I think) a python > error, dumping binary all over the screen. Also I had previously > fetched the stage tarball to another machine, intending to pull it > across via ftp, but the livecd doesn't seem to have an ftp client. > links2 is nasty, it displays the contents of the tarball on screen > (even though it saves OK, it's ugly). > > jim > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
