I've searched forums, and read the relevant bugs in bugzilla with no luck. I ran an emerge -Du world on a x86 laptop that hasn't been upgraded in a long time. The emerge finally failed with the error in the subject line. Thinking that it emerged a new gcc but failed to update with gcc-config, I updated with gcc-config, sourced /etc/profile, and ran fix-libtools.
Created attachment 97109 [details] make.conf
Created attachment 97110 [details] emerge -Du gcc-4.1 failure
[shaw@kron ~ 42]% gcc-config -l [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardened [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopie [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednopiessp [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6-hardenednossp [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 * [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardened [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopie [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopiessp [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednossp [shaw@kron ~ 43]% cat /etc/ld.so.conf # ld.so.conf autogenerated by env-update; make all changes to # contents of /etc/env.d directory /usr/local/lib //usr//lib/opengl/xorg-x11/lib /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/lib /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6 /usr/lib/nspr /usr/lib/nss /usr/lib /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/lib/i686/ /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/lib/i686/native_threads/ /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/lib/i686/client/ /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10/jre/lib/i686/server/ /usr/lib/qt4 /usr/kde/3.5/lib /usr/qt/3/lib /usr/kde/3.4/lib /usr/kde/3.3/lib /usr/qt/2/lib /usr/games/lib /usr/lib/libstdc++-v3/
Sorry for the noise, I got it working. I found that /bin/as was a dead link and relinked it to /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/binutils-bin/2.16.1/as Then I ran binutil-config 1, which downgraded me to i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.16.1 from i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.17. I bet this would have fixed the dead assembly link above too, but I don't know what I'm doing. This got my gcc-4.1 compile going, so I'm happy.
