While doing an "emerge --sync" I got this error message, plus the hint to report it as a bug - so here I am reporting it. I have also another problem, which may be related to this. Please see below. ****************** BEGIN BUG 1 *************************** wrote 16181 bytes read 5296606 bytes 168659.90 bytes/sec total size is 109135402 speedup is 20.54 >>> Updating Portage cache... /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libstdc++-3.3) ****************** END BUG 1 *************************** My Platform/Distribution: Linux zeus 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 #8 SMP Sat Dec 6 12:05:22 CST 2008 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux I cannot successfully perform an "emerge -u world", because it gives me this error message (which I have not been able to resolve, despite searching Gentoo support and outside Internet resources): ****************** BEGIN BUG 2********************** !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink? !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete? ****************** END BUG 2 *********************** Any help is greatly appreciated :-) Thanks, Thomas
Fix your profile and upgrade portage. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114798 ***