Starting over, I got to the bootstrap.sh stage (very early in the installation process) and upon running the bootstrap script, portage was emerged and gettext was started, but failed because of the /lib/cpp sanity check. I redownloaded the stage1 tarball and overwrote the /lib/cpp with the new one from the tarball (in case it was corrupted) it didn't help. I manipulated the /etc/make.conf to the same settings it had the last time I had installed Gentoo (early August, 03) and still the same problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot to Live CD 2.Get to Bootstrapping sequence 3.Watch as gettext or companion fails a /lib/cpp sanity check. Actual Results: The same as problem above (it happens everytime) Expected Results: Gotten past the bootstrap.sh stage of the installation (e.g. gotten to stage 2) Cannot paste emerge info (no pasting ability on the install CD). Relevant system stats: P4 processor...that's it. I remembered from my old Gentoo installation that the make.conf warned against using pentium4 optimizations (sse2 problems) so I tried both pentium4 and pentium3
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12699 ***
I need to know what stage1 tarball you used. 1.4 release? Did you log anything?
OK, the problem is that you're using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", and the gettext-0.12.1 in unstable uses C++ all of the sudden (0.11 didn't,) and there's no g++ on the stage1.
Still seeing this with a pristine (new hard disk) install of 2004.1. If there is a user work-around, please append it to the bug.
It appends when forgetting to start bootstrap.sh, emerge system is fire up after bootstrap.sh -f. (maybe because the command bootstrap.sh -f shows up clearly in the middle of a page of the handbook on a text console, while bootstrap.sh command is broken on 2 pages.)
FYI, this bug also applies to 2004.2 amd64 LiveCD. Even if no CFLAGS are specified in /etc/make.conf, the bug still occurs.
we disable C++ for stage1's ... any reasons to not enable it ?
gettext has C++ disabled now during bootstrap
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.
