I fixed it. Thank God that's over... it was good to go back to the command line a bit for me. Keeps me sharp... even despite the huge allergies I'm experiencing right now.
I've also added a note in my notes files to NEVER run anything like "emerge --unmerge gcc" ever again. That was a huge mistake. Rather, I've found through this experience gcc-config. Never knew that was there... much to my misfortune. Thanks a lot for your help - Without you I'd have to reinstall, since I'm not skilled enough to brave the world of a live-cd and chroot (I think) into my drive to then install gcc. At least, that's what I think my next best option was... I'm not at all familiar with chroot though, so all I can do is speculate. I think I'll go read its man page now in celebration of the restoration of my system. Also, right before I killed my system, I made something, a very very elementary bash script (my first bash script - yay!) to toggle distcc on and off. It's NOT terribly advanced, but it's a start... here it is: localhost ~ # cat /bin/ch_distcc #!/bin/bash # alternates between using make.conf and make.conf.other # in other words, toggles between using distcc or not # this should be where your make.conf lives. MAKE_DIR="/etc/"; mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf "$MAKE_DIR"buffer mv "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf mv "$MAKE_DIR"buffer "$MAKE_DIR"make.conf.other I know it's not terribly good, it assumes that make.conf and make.conf.other are exactly the same - except for the distcc part in FEATURES="". But hey, it's something I can work on while chipping my way through a excellent reference on bash I found and downloaded. Thanks again for your help! -- [email protected] mailing list
