SUMMARY: emerge of gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 failes on i686 system with error "i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found" This is a x86 with i686 comiler and libs, E.g. gcc is /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, libs are /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu. In other words, there is NO i386-* compiler NOR libs. I've done the usual: python-updater, emerge portage, emerge gcc-config. Those things are working fine, gcc-config report the correct i686 paths. But none of this fixes the problem. It seems a tool or script somewhere is insisting on i386-* when it doesn't exist on this i686 system. One person suggesting symlinking a i386-*-gcc to the i686-*-gcc. But that doesn't even run, becuase gcc-config is confused by this. Any advice appreciated. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge orbit 2. 3. Actual Results: # emerge orbit Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) gnome-base/orbit-2.12.3 to / ...<snip>... Making all in orb-core make[8]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/orbit-2.12.3/work/ORBit2-2.12.3/include/orbit/orb-core' (rm -f corba-defs.h corba-defs-stubs.c corba-defs-skels.c corba-defs-common.c corba-defs-imodule.c corba-defs-skelimpl.c || true) > /dev/null ../../../src/idl-compiler/orbit-idl-2 -I../../../src/idl/CORBA_PIDL -I../../../src/idl/CORBA -I../../../src/idl/interop -I../../../src/orb/orb-core --noskels --nodefskels --nostubs --noidata --nocommon --showcpperrors --define=Object=OObject --define=TypeCode=TTypeCode --deps ./.deps/corba-defs.idl.P ../../../src/orb/orb-core/corba-defs.idl orbit-idl-2 2.12.3 compiling mode, show preprocessor errors, passes: headers sh: line 1: i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found Error: Empty file NOTE: There is no i386-* on my i686 system. Why is it insisting on using i386-*? My gcc-config correctly report i686-* for everything. Also of note, I do a " find . -exec grep -l i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc {} \;" from the root orbit src dir, and its not found anywhere. So what is this "sh: line 1: ..." script that is trying to execute i386-* ? # emege --info -bash: emege: command not found homer:/var/tmp/portage/orbit-2.12.3/work/ORBit2-2.12.3/include/orbit/orb-core# emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.50GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
are you still having this problem? if so, could you attach a config.log. Thanks
SOLUTION: Yaaahhoooo!!! After looking closely at the log, I see the build breaks when the make file executes "orbit-idl-2" to compile some orbit corba junk. I searched bugzilla for others having trouble with orbit-idl-2 and found a solution! # emerge libIDL NOW, I did previously emerge orbit, and it did NOT depend and update libIDL. I think this is a bug in the orbit ebuild. If the oribit ebuild would also update libIDL, then my problem would have been solved without entering a bug ticket. Please consider updating the orbit ebuild to depend libIDL. Thanks!
