I was trying to do a stage 1 install by following the Gentoo handbook and the bootstrapping failed on gcc-3.3.2-r5. Output from bootstrap.sh is under "Additional information". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from minimal livecd 2.Download stage1 and portage tarballs 3.Extract according to Gentoo handbook 4.Run bootstrap.sh to bootstrap the system Actual Results: Bootstrapping fails with gcc build error. Expected Results: Bootstrapped system. Output from emerge info: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/alpha/2004.3, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r12, 2.4.27-gentoo alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.27-gentoo alpha EV56 Python: [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 21:32:35)] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: 2.14.90.0.8-r1 sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 2.4.23 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alpha arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY -------------------------------------------------- Output from bootstrap.sh: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/real.c: In function `encode_c4x_single': /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/real.c:4182: error: syntax error before ')' token /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/gcc-3.3.2/gcc/real.c:4182:34: invalid suffix "x800000" on integer constant make[2]: *** [real.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/build/gcc' make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r5/work/build/gcc' make: *** [bootstrap-lean] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-3.3.2-r5 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 427, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
Does this still happen with the 2005.1 livecd?
stage1 and stage2 are not currently supported anymore so closing this as WONTFIX. Cheers, Ferdy