When I try to install binutils with 'emerge binutils' it seems to remove binutils. This is what is in emerge.log. 1076894322: Started emerge on: Feb 16, 2004 02:18:42 1076894322: *** emerge binutils 1076894322: >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 to / 1076894322: === (1 of 1) Cleaning (sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4::/usr/portage/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4.ebuild) 1076894325: === (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging (sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4::/usr/portage/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4.ebuild) 1076894932: === (1 of 1) Post-Build Cleaning (sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4::/usr/portage/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4.ebuild) 1076894935: >>> AUTOCLEAN: sys-devel/binutils 1076894940: === Unmerging... (sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4) 1076894946: >>> unmerge success: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 1076894951: ::: completed emerge (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 to / 1076894951: *** Finished. Cleaning up... 1076894962: *** exiting successfully. 1076894966: *** terminating Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. need to copy as, ar, ld en size from another machine 3. emerge binutils Actual Results: as, ar, ld and size were removed Expected Results: install binutils Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.23) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /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" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.15/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.17/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gtk2 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis opengl mozilla X gtk gnome alsa -kde -qt ldap imap gettext"
portage 2.0.50-r1 is latest stable please update
after update to portage 2.0.50-r1. emerge binutils works again.
closing as fixed
