livecd portage # scripts/bootstrap.sh Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/ Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2 Starting Bootstrap of base system ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Using baselayout : sys-apps/baselayout * Using portage : sys-apps/portage * Using os-headers : virtual/os-headers * Using binutils : sys-devel/binutils * Using gcc : sys-devel/gcc * Using gettext : sys-devel/gettext * Using libc : virtual/libc * Using texinfo : sys-apps/texinfo * Using zlib : sys-libs/zlib * Using ncurses : sys-libs/ncurses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Configuring environment ... * GENTOO_MIRRORS='http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo' * PORTDIR='/usr/portage' * DISTDIR='/usr/portage/distfiles' * PKGDIR='/usr/portage/packages' * PORTAGE_TMPDIR='/var/tmp' * CFLAGS='-O3 -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mailtivec -mabi=altivec -mcpu=7400' * CHOST='powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu' * CXXFLAGS='-O3 -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mailtivec -mabi=altivec -mcpu=7400' * MAKEOPTS='-j3' * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='ppc' * FEATURES='ccache' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51-r3/work * Applying gcc-2.95-libsandbox.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. Could not run/locate "gcc" ./create-localdecls Checking truncate argument type... off_t Checking libc version... Could not run/locate "gcc" ldd: ./libctest: No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `libctest': No such file or directory gcc -O1 -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall -c libsandbox.c Could not run/locate "gcc" make: *** [libsandbox.o] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 77, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Live-CD 2.Follow steps from teh Gentoo Handbook 3.Get stopped at bootstrap.sh bit. Expected Results: Bootstrapped?
This isn't a portage issue...
looks like the stage is broken
Which stage do you use? Did tar report any errors while unpacking the stage?
I think that has been resolved with 2004.3
