On 14/05/16 06:18, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. >> >> Ouch! I was asking what you had, not suggesting removing anything yet. >> I would've recommended removing the old versions and keeping 4.9.3 if >> anything. > > Well, I had never tried 4.9.3, and I'd been using 4.6 without problems > for some time, so keeping 4.6 seemed like the safe way to go. I still > don't understand what broke 4.6. > >>> I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it installed). >>> >>> emerge is now happy and willing to upgrade gcc from 4.6 to 4.9 -- but >>> it can't: now the build of 4.9.3 is failing. It appears I can no >>> longer build _anything_. >>> >>> My system seems to be well and truly borked. >> >> See >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1009338-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html >> where someone else destroyed their gcc, and downloaded and untarred a >> binary tarball of gcc, to save their system. > > I built a few binary gcc packages on different Gentoo installs using > quickpkg. The first couple didn't work, but I eventually found a > machine whose gcc binaries will run on my broken box. I've now got a > binary install of gcc-4.9.3 that seems to be working. It's been > building gcc 4.9.3 for about 15 minutes now (building it with 4.6 > would fail within 15-20 seconds). > >> I can't seem to get http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org to respond. Was >> that part of the re-organization of the gentoo.org website? > > Tinderbox's owner pulled the plug on it a couple years ago. AFAIR, it > didn't have anything to do with the website reort. >
I have not seen it mentioned, but did you run "fix_libtool_files.sh" after changing gcc versions? BillK
