Updating sandbox to version 1.2.9 fails on a ~AMD64 installation, even when doing a "FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox" The errors occur during configuration. Corwin scott # FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.9 to / >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.2.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.5-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.3.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.4.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.5-r2.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.5.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.6.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.7.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.8.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) sandbox-1.2.9.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.5-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.2 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.3 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.4 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.5 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.5-r2 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.6 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.7 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.8 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-sandbox-1.2.9 >>> md5 src_uri ;-) sandbox-1.2.9.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking sandbox-1.2.9.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/sandbox-1.2.9/work * Unpacking sandbox for ABI=amd64... >>> Source unpacked. * If configure fails with a 'cannot run C compiled programs' error, try this: * FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox * Configuring sandbox for ABI=amd64... * econf: updating sandbox-1.2.9-amd64/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating sandbox-1.2.9-amd64/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --libdir=/usr/lib64 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.
you neglected to post `emerge info` and config.log re-open when you've posted both
