I ran "emerge system" which upgraded or replaced 35 packages. The last 2 were: [ebuild R ] sys-devel/binutils-apple-4.3:4 USE="-lto {-test}" 0 kB [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-apple-4.2.1_p5666-r1:42 USE="cxx fortran nls nptl* objc objc++ openmp -multislot -regression-test% -vanilla (-test%)" 0 kB Obviously binutils was working fine before it was re-emerged, since it was used for about 33 packages. The last package (gcc) failed due to a broken binutils. Even compiling a one-line main.c fails now: $ gcc main.c * binutils-config: invalid switch! Try '--help'. binutils-config error: ld wrapper: could not get linker binary path: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I've tried restoring from a backup and the same thing happened when I re-emerged again. I'm using OS X 10.9.2 with Xcode 5.0.2 and the Xcode command-line tools installed. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.8-prefix (prefix/darwin/macos/10.9/x64, gcc-4.2.1, unavailable, 13.1.0 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Darwin-13.1.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Timestamp of tree: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:06:11 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.3.0-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.12.4, 1.14 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r00.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 Repositories: gentoo_prefix local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x64-macos" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-apple-darwin13" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-apple-darwin13" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/Volumes/Backup/Gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FCFLAGS="" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles force-prefix merge-sync news nostrip parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/Volumes/Backup/Gentoo/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/opt/gentoo/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Volumes/Backup/Gentoo/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/Volumes/Backup/Gentoo/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Volumes/Backup/Gentoo/usr/local/portage" USE="aqua coreaudio cracklib cxx ipv6 mmx mmxext modules ncurses nls objc objc++ prefix readline sse sse2 ssl unicode x64-macos zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="Darwin" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 372142 [details] output from emerge
What is the output of "binutils-config -l" (that is a lowercase 'L').
Before the re-emerge: $ binutils-config -l [1] x86_64-apple-darwin12-4.3 * After it was either the same, or darwin13. I've already restored again from backup.
Ah, so you have a prefix installation on OSX 10.8, then upgraded to OSX 10.9 and tried to just update your prefix. That is a task for not the faint of heart and difficult to support.
Good to know. Should I have bootstrapped again and then copied over certain config files?
(In reply to * from comment #5) > Good to know. Should I have bootstrapped again and then copied over certain > config files? Yes, please rebootstrap. You can find packages you installed in $EPREFIX/var/lib/portage/world and most of your config in /etc/portage should be copied, as long as you make sure you don't overwrite the files produced by the bootstrap script (in particular make.conf).
