Gcc problems and portage

[rokstar83]

I'm having a lot of problems and they all seem to come back to gcc. I'm currently using gcc-3.3.5-r1. Ever since updating to whatever the last revision was i've been unable to emerge anything. The error that results from say...
emerge binutils is :
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot creat

I've searched the fourms and google looking for answers and usually this was cause by problems in make.conf but i've looked at my make.conf till my eyes have started to burn and I can't find anything wrong with them, especially since I didn't change anything after emerging 3.3.5. I can only imagine that there is some problem with PATH variables but i can't figure out what it is. Does any one know what the problem is or know a thread that already exists that they can point me too?

Here is my make.conf:

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
USE="-gnome kde X acpi arts avi bzlib imagemagick imap jpeg java mozilla nptl ogg pcmcia perl sockets ssl usb x86 dvd alsa xvid"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
FEATURES="ccache"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
CCACHE_SIZE="2G"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage

and emerge info:
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 1 2005, 00:10:16) ]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
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/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kd e/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/q mail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib crypt cups curl dvd embo ss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurse s nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quickti me readline sdl sockets spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-f onts usb x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[IvanYosifov]

Try

[IvanYosifov]

Also try to use -march instead of -mcpu

[Halcy0n]

[mtz767]

I had the same problem, after updating portage.

then I tried

# binutils-config --x86

and now it works

[rokstar83]

Thank you everyone, you are a credit to the cause. The problem is fixed and it looks like everything is compiling again. It looks like it was either the -march switch that fixed it. I'm more and more amazed at the speed and resources available in fixing problems like this. This is the reason more people should make the switch.