i've recently updated world and it seems that my compiler has some major problems. i can't seem to configure anything at all atm and i don't know what went wrong. i've tried revdep-rebuild without luck. checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. !!! Please attach the following file when filing a report to bugs.gentoo.org: !!! /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.97/work/coreutils-5.97/config.log !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-5.97 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1540: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 940: Called src_compile coreutils-5.97.ebuild, line 102: Called econf '--enable-largefile' '--enable-nls' '--disable-selinux' '--bindir=/bin' '--without-included-regex' ebuild.sh, line 541: Called die enti ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1_pre1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ftracer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X Xaw3d aac acpi alsa apache2 async audiofile automount avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cli crypt ctype cups curl cvs dga dir divx4linux dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif glitz gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal ldap libwww lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmap mng mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pascal pcre pdf pdflib perl php png posix pppd python qt quicktime radeon rdesktop readline reflection rtc ruby samba sasl sdl server session slp sndfile sockets spamassassin spell spl sql ssl stream subversion svg swat symlink syslog tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb videos visualization vorbis webdav wxwindows xft xine xml xorg xosd xpm xv xvid zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 90259 [details] configure log
*** Bug 138175 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.16.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Well, it's looking for binutils 2.16.1 which you don't have any more. Tried to run binutils-config to set 2.17?
well that worked. thank you. sorry for the double-bug-report.