I'm booting off the live cd for 1.4 RC4, using the 800X600 boot option b/c my laptop screen doesn't support 1024X768, and I get to the emerge sync step in the directions, after using the stage 1 tarball. That goes fine. However, when that finishes, I get a message to the effect of "portage needs updating, you should update it before you do anything else." So I do an emerge portage, and it fails when it's about to start compiling with this error: [lots of checking went fine, then this] checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Then I tried to emerge ncurses. This failed as well, with the same message. checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed. !!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1 !!! econf failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Boot using the 800 boot option from the 1.4 RC4 liveCD 1. Use the stage 1 tarball 2. emerge sync 3. emerge portage Actual Results: I successfully reproduced this in exactly the same way as described. Expected Results: Um, portage should have emerged properly, there shouldn't have been errors in the C++ preprocessor, /lib/cpp should be sane, etc. This is a Dell Latitude slimline laptop, running off a Pentium III.
*** Bug 19949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
if you run `gcc-config 1` and try again does it work ? ive seen this pop up randomly on my box, and re-running gcc-config fixed it
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