Bug 12819 – bash: gcc: command not found

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description merwan kashouty 2002-12-27 20:43:47 UTC]

if loged as normal user , entering su to gain root priviledges bash no longer
recognizes the gcc command. this is on a system using ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86"
enabled. this also effects being able to run make menuconfig in /usr/src/linux .
here is the exact error given :

root@JaiBaba linux # make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh: line 1: gcc: command not found

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

the command gcc works correctly for normal user as well as root but not when
given as su to root from normal user.

rommel@JaiBaba rommel $ gcc
gcc: no input files

root@JaiBaba rommel # gcc
bash: gcc: command not found

JaiBaba root # gcc
gcc: no input files

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-12-28 20:02:04 UTC]

please post `emerge info` and `qpkg -I -v gcc`

[Comment 2 merwan kashouty 2002-12-29 02:14:19 UTC]

================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif gpm jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner" ARCH="x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" MAKEOPTS="-j3" JDK_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01" JAVA_HOME="/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"  root@JaiBaba rommel # qpkg -I -v gcc sys-devel/gcc-config-1.2.7 * sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r5 * sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r7 * sys-devel/gcc-3.2.1 *  the output from qpkg isnt really relevant for this anylonger....during the time i had this issue i was running gcc-3.2.1-r6 and have emerged 3.2.1-r0 which has corrected the problem of gcc not being in the su to roots path.  

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-12-29 02:17:32 UTC]

Err, check PATH ?

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 13:21:01 UTC]

You just have to source /etc/profile after gcc-3.2.1-r6 was merged.  For
portage though, this is transparent ..

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2003-01-26 23:00:00 UTC]

*** Bug 13344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-01-26 23:00:19 UTC]

*** Bug 13065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 7 ebnf 2003-01-27 09:26:04 UTC]

So, this has been fixed is portage, or the fix is to source /etc/profile after
emerge of gcc-3.2.1-r6?  I'm a bit confused, sorry.

[Comment 8 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-28 14:35:04 UTC]

Also, gcc-config-1.3.1 fixes this.