Bug 271554 – uninstalling the current gcc causes gcc-config to fail an assertion in fix_libtool_files.sh

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Philippe Chaintreuil 2009-05-28 16:20:25 UTC]

My box had gcc 4.1.2 and 4.3.2-r3 installed.  [I was unaware that] gcc 4.1.2 was my current active/default gcc version via gcc-config.  I uninstalled gcc 4.1.2 and this caused the following output:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
<<<          dir /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include
<<<          dir /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/32
<<<          dir /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2
--- !empty   dir /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
--- !empty   dir /usr/lib/gcc
--- !empty   dir /usr/lib
--- !empty   dir /usr/bin
--- !empty   dir /usr
--- !empty   dir /etc/eselect/compiler
--- !empty   dir /etc/eselect
--- !empty   dir /etc/env.d/gcc
--- !empty   dir /etc/env.d
--- !empty   dir /etc
 * Running 'fix_libtool_files.sh 4.1.2'
 * Scanning libtool files for hardcoded gcc library paths...
gcc-config: error: could not run/locate 'gcc'
:0: assertion failed: (gcc -dumpversion) | getline NEWVER)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

emerge then went on to the next package for uninstalling without paying any mind.  

Based on that, my guess is this output is from the bottom of the toolchain.eclass's gcc-compiler_pkg_postrm() and fix_libtool_files.sh.

When I next went to install a program, gcc could not be found as gcc-config was in an invalid state.  The output of the configure scripts was similar to  the 2nd to last line in the output above.  It would say something about "[...]could not run/locate 'gcc'".

I have since pointed gcc-config to the newer (still installed) gcc and my system seems to be happy.

This is probably a problem with either the gcc uninstall not checking if it's uninstalling the current gcc and updating gcc-config or something with fix_libtool_files.sh.  We're pretty far out of my knowledge base.  =)

[Comment 1 Philippe Chaintreuil 2009-05-28 16:22:01 UTC]

emerge --info:


Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Extreme_CPU_Q9300_@_2.53GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:45:03 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p39
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7
dev-lang/python:     2.5.4-r2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.4.8
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/unsupported"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 amr applet artworkextra aspell async automount bash-completion berkdb bluetooth boundschecking branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope css cups dbus dell devhelp device-mapper dga dia disk-partition diskio doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread elf emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fuse galago gd gedit gif gimp gimpprint glade glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnome-print gnomecd gnuplot gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv id3 id3tag imagemagick imap inherit-graph inkjar ipv6 isdnlog java java6 javascript jce jpeg laptop libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors logrotate lzma lzo mad mfd-rewrites midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mono mozbranding mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses network network-cron nfs nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntp nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl pidgin png pop ppds pppd prediction python qt3support quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sasl scanner sdl session slp smp soundex sourceview spell spl sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification subversion svg sysfs syslog tcl tcpd templates theora threads thunderbird tiff truetype unicode usb valgrind vim vim-syntax vorbis winbind wmf x264 xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa fbdev"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 2 Chad A. Simmons 2009-05-28 19:18:49 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 130772 ***