Th efollowing appears during emerge after >>>source unpacked line: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory which appear to be caaused by a an update of binutils. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -Udv --newuse --ask world 2. 3. The binutils update caused broken as and ld, at least, preventing any emerges.
run `binutils-config 1` *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84707 ***