Is there a log that tells me what failed?

veggie2u

I can not get my laptop to bootstrap.

I am getting the following message:

checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully
!!! Function econf, Line 9, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed

How do I know what it was trying to do when this failed?

veggie2u

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

What hardware and which image are you using?
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veggie2u · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject:

I am using a K6-2 333 laptop with 160 meg ram.

In order for me to use the PCMCIA lan card, I started with the 1.2 cd as per this thread:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14894

Then switched to a 1.4 iso cd at the 9) Unpacking the Stage Tarballs point in the install instructions. (unmount 1.2 CD, mount 1.4 CD)

I was trying to use the stage1 stuff.
It fails on the bootstrap, but I can't tell on what.
I have tried a couple of diff CFLAGS:

CFLAGS="K6-2 -O3 -pipe" and CFLAGS="K6 -O2 -pipe"

There is another with similar issue:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=19675

veggie2u

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Which tarball? Example: stage1-x86-1.4_rc1-20020908-1208.tar.bz2 Are you using an x86, 386, 486, 586 or 686 tarball?
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veggie2u · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject:

Doh! I might have used the wrong 1.2 iso.

gentoo-i686-1.2.iso
livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso

Should I have used gentoo-ix86-1.2.iso instead? I didn't realize what that could mean untill I started looking into compiler options.

Is there anything I can do other than starting completely from scratch?

veggie2u

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

The K6-2 is not a 686 processor. 586 should work.

veggie2u · Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 6:52 pm Post subject:

I didn't see an ISO for a i586 based system, so I am assumeing that I needed the gentoo-ix86.1.2.iso to start with.

Is the livecd-basic-1.4_rc1-r2.iso safe for me to use after I have booted with the 1.2 disk (because of the pcmcia thing)?

I am getting about 9+ hours into a bootstrap.sh, step 11.

veggie2u

rac · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:13 am Post subject:

If you're bootstrapping from stage 1, you'll be compiling everything yourself. The only thing to worry about is that CHOST is set correctly (i.e not 686) in /etc/make.conf.
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veggie2u · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 12:38 pm Post subject:

What compiler am I using, if I start with the 1.2 iso, then switch to the stage1 sources from the 1.4 cd?

I did a gcc --version and get 3.2.

In the /etc/make.conf file it says that gcc 3.2 supports cpu types k6-2.

I am now failing executeing :

gcc -NDEBUG -fpic -I/usr/include/python2.2 -c missingos.c -o build/temp.linux-i586-2.2/missingos.o -march=K6-2 -O3 -pipe

with an error of :

cc1: bad value (K6-2) for -march= switch

Oh crap. I have capital K in my make.conf file for K6-2 - is that the issue?

veggie2u

rac · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 2:37 pm Post subject: