I have a laptop which used to run gentoo, but I confused it with conflicting versions of software and decided the best bet was to reinstall from scratch. I am trying a stage1 install; that part went ok, but stage two fails with this complaint: running build running build_ext building 'magic' extension creating build creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.4 i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -march=i686 -O2 -pipe -fPIC -I./ -I../ -I../src -I/usr/include/ -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c py_magic.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/py_magic.o unable to execute i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: No such file or directory error: command 'i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/file-4.17-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 939: Called src_compile file-4.17-r1.ebuild, line 43: Called distutils_src_compile distutils.eclass, line 38: Called die Everything prior to that for this sys-apps/file emerge was referencing i686* as the compiler. Here is emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 Portage 2.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: [Not Present] sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shu tdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/d istfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility acpi afs aim alsa amd anthy apache apac he2 apm applet arts asf audacious audiofile automount avi bash-completion bdf be rkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bittorrent bluetooth bonjour bonobo bzip2 canna cardbus c db cdda cddb cdf cdparanoia cdr cjk cli crypt css ctype cups curl curlwrappers d ba dbus directfb dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dvi dxr3 ecc eds elibc_glibc emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode esd ethereal examples exif expat extensions fam fame fast build fastcgi fat fbcon fbdev festival ffmpeg flac font-server fontconfig foomat icdb force-cgi-redirect fortran freetds freetts freewnn ftp gcj gd gdbm gif gimp glut glx gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal haskell hfs idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipod ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java j avascript jbig jfs jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux lame lcms ldap leim libcaca libg ++ libgd libgda libwww lm_sensors mad madwifi maildir memlimit mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer mysql mythtv nc urses new-login nls nptl nptlonly odbc offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pa m pcre pda pdflib perl player png posix postgres pppd procmail python qt quickti me readline reflection reiserfs ruby samba scanner sdl session simplexml skk sla ng slp smime snmp soap sockets sox speedo speex spell spf spl sql sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl stroke svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tokenizer tra nscode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU v4l v 4l2 vcd vfat vorbis webdav wifi win32codecs withsamplescripts wma wma123 wmf wxw indows x264 x86 xanim xemacs xforms xfs xft xim xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGU AS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY I can chroot to the mounted drives and emerge --resume repeats this, time after time. I tried adding a symlink from /usr/bin/i686... to i386..., that failed exactly the same, and removing the symlink continues to fail exactly the same.
env-update && source /etc/profile && 'emerge -e system'
This is pathetic. I claim a stage 1 install fails and you run emerge -e system. Somehow I don't see the similarity. I have been continuing this stage 1 install using emerge --resume --skipfirst; my hope is taht I can struggle thru to the end and have a system which, altho crippled, can at least recompile the missing parts. For instance, dev-perl/Locale-gettext fails because perl is not installed yet. I wonder what else is not installed that makes sys-apps/file fail? You eveidently don't see the relationship. No shit. If I have a fully installed system, I can probably emerge a part which has already emerged. The real trick comes in trying to install from scratch. Gentoo is run by a bunch of noobies who can't see past the end of their own noses.
Eh, look - either use stage3 like everyone else or do the damned bootstrap and stage 1/2 properly. It's unsupported, period.
