downtime null wrote:
> i started an 'emerge -U world' after not having run it for quite some time.
> part of the way through, emerge died trying to install gawk (i think). after
> this happened, i started getting errors relating to libstdc++.so.5 not being
> found. i got this problem fixed by creating a link to the new dir to match the
> '/etc/ld.so.conf' listing. i could have just added another line, but i didn't.
>
> but now, when trying to run 'emerge -U system', the first package fails with :
>
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> !!! ERROR: sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r1 failed.
> !!! Function src_compile, Line 42, Exitcode 77
> !!! (no error message)
>
> and when i try to 'emerge gcc', i get :
>
> Created "Makefile" in /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/build using "mt-frag"
> Could not run/locate "gcc"
> *** The command '/usr/bin/gcc -o conftest -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe conftest.c' failed.
> *** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.
>
> !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 failed.
> !!! Function src_compile, Line 405, Exitcode 1
> !!! (no error message)
>
> 'echo $CC' outputs 'gcc'. i even tried setting CC to '/usr/bin/gcc' and it
> still didn't work. i'm not able to compile a simple c program. i get :
>
> $ gcc -o hello hello.c
> Could not run/locate "gcc"
> $
>
> i don't know what else to try. any help on this is greatly appreciated.

# etc-update
# env-update && source /etc/profile

You might also need to
# python-updater

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