Thanks for the advice folks. As it turned out I had enough of the lib left to keep some of the system running and I managed to copy over sufficient to get a working connection going then after much more thrashing of the head on desk it turned out that my backup was sufficient to get portage working pretty well phew I am now working on the --emptytree to restore everything properly.
stu ps. tip of the day when spring cleaning your system watch out for those little typos that can ruin your summer :) pps. Just for fun it went something like this, "rm -rf /usr/lib/libcrco.so /usr/lib/ /usr/lib/bochs /usr/lib/libcroco.co.0" On 19/10/06, Nico Schümann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2006/10/19, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If not then you will need to acquire a binary gcc/etc to work around > it. Then rebuild. > > emerge -e world I think, after having set up the tool chain, you'd do a emerge -e system and then emerge -e world, because the system packages aren't considered by the world file, are they? Anyway, good luck. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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