Bug 391119

Summary:	USE="-cxx nocxx" emerge -1v sys-devel/gcc break system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sergiy Borodych <Sergiy.Borodych>
Component:	[OLD] GCC Porting	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical	CC:	roman.zilka
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.log config.log

Description Sergiy Borodych 2011-11-20 14:08:38 UTC

I'm not sure where I can post it

After doing
USE="-cxx nocxx" emerge -1v gcc
I break my system
Now I cant re-emerge gcc with any flags :(
(Also a lot of programs do not work without libstdc++.so.6)

[ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r1  USE="gtk mudflap (multilib) nls nocxx nptl openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -cxx -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj -graphite (-hardened) (-libffi) -lto -multislot -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla" 0 kB


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="-cxx nocxx" emerge -1v sys-devel/gcc
2. emerge -1v sys-devel/gcc

Comment 1 Sergiy Borodych 2011-11-20 14:09:05 UTC

Created attachment 293211 [details]
build.log

Comment 2 Sergiy Borodych 2011-11-20 14:10:01 UTC

Created attachment 293213 [details]
config.log

Comment 3 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn gentoo-dev

2011-11-20 15:06:01 UTC

Support requests belong to the forums, not bugzilla. Try
> PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/" emerge --oneshot --getbinpkgonly gcc

Comment 4 Sergiy Borodych 2011-11-20 21:34:08 UTC

Thanks, those pkg'es helped me

Comment 5 Roman Žilka 2013-04-08 12:26:37 UTC

Recently I actually set "-cxx" in make.conf, reasoning that I don't code in C++, so I don't need the flag. I've always had "-python -perl -ruby -..." too and all has been well. I let gcc re-merge with [-cxx]. Turned out to be a game over henceforth. Since every user of Gentoo needs the C++ compiler (while not necessarily a lot of other C++-related pkg-specific stuff), please consider making the cxx flag enforced for gcc for all profiles (or just removing it altogether, making g++ mandatory). So as to prevent unfortunate ends. I did have a backup, but else...