Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-04 Thread Lord Sauron
Just to close this all up on a funny note, look at this: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22#.22I_Did_This.22_Wall_of_Shame -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:42:29 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: From what I understand, which may be as wrong as it gets, if I use the buildpkg thing, it stores a binary in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and if I really screw up something, like portage, gcc or something like that, I can untar it to /

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Lord Sauron wrote: On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc. Will put a binary tarball of gcc-3.4.6-r1 (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB.

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Rumen Yotov
Justin R Findlay wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -k =gcc-3.4.5-r1 And make sure PKGDIR is

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread leszek
Le mercredi 31 mai 2006 à 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron a écrit : For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone. Totally. Completely. Not there. there is a page in the wiki explaining how to solve this : http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Recover_from_%22emerge_--unmerge_gcc%22 -Leszek --

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:23 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: I should be able to say whether your steps worked within an hour or so. Thanks again. *meep* no news is good news? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Teresa and Dale
leszek wrote: Le mercredi 31 mai 2006 à 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron a écrit : For reasons that I can't fathom, gcc, is now gone. Totally. Completely. Not there. there is a page in the wiki explaining how to solve this :

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Lord Sauron
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

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Lord Sauron
On 6/1/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently changed mine to this: # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of # these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non- # developers as well. 'buildpkg' is an always-on

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-06-01 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: On 6/1/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently changed mine to this: # FEATURES are settings that affect the functionality of portage. Most of # these settings are for developer use, but some are available to non- # developers as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there, and other things. To me it looks like Python is totally broken. It keeps asking for libstdc++.so.6, which apparently no longer exists. Yes, on Gentoo unmerging gcc will break all programs that depend on libstdc++.so. You should have

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Alan
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 01 June 2006 00:28, Lord Sauron wrote: I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released. I gave it some pretty explicit instructions AFTER

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:45 -0700, Alan wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: Secondly, you can relatively easily restore a gcc by creating a binary package from another gentoo server (I forget the exact steps for this, basically you can dump all the files

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 May 2006 20:46:54 -0300 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Some OK ideas have been floated here, but what if our friend doesn't have another working gentoo machine? he needs that for quickpkg. On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: My best idea has been to try and distcc with my

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:19:27 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment. ahh ok missed that bit. And I think you are

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Ryan Tandy
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:28 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: My best idea has been to try and distcc with my desktop I assumed the presence of a separate desktop machine from this comment. His desktop is a Windows machine, running distcc under Cygwin. --

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Rumen Yotov
Lord Sauron wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such that I wouldn't finish when KDE 4.0 was released. I gave it some pretty explicit

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:28:45PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: This is - for me - an emergency. No pun intended. I had to get rid of all gcc versions 3.4.5 and greater to work with gcc in Cygwin on my desktop to speed up the emerge of KDE 3.5 such

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I keep binaries for all major/critical packages of my system - gcc,glibc But their usage depends on processor family, USE flags for gcc etc. Will put a binary tarball of gcc-3.4.6-r1 (gcc-3.4.6-r1.tbz2)-25MB. CFLAGS=-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -k =gcc-3.4.5-r1 And make sure PKGDIR is set to /usr/portage/packages

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 /usr/portage/packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] # emerge -k =gcc-3.4.5-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 5/31/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. [EMAIL PROTECTED] # cp gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/31/06, Justin R Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:48PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: So I'm just going to untar it to / by tar xjvf gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2? No. No: cd / tar -xjvf path/gcc-3.4.5-r1.tbz2 Justin, remember the original problem...no libstdc++.so.6, so

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY - GCC GONE!

2006-05-31 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:40:13PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Justin, remember the original problem...no libstdc++.so.6, so all C++ dependant packages are broken, and this includes python and thus portage. OK. I guess I should read the whole thread before spouting off directions. (-: