Portage wants me to merge gcc 3?!

ens_leader · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 105

Im trying to do the following in portage:

Telexen · Apprentice Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 189

emerge 'libstdc++-v3' first

ToeiRei · Veteran Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 1191 Location: Austria

you might want to see which ebuild wants you to do so...

try emerge --tree ....

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Vlad.Sharp · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

Yes, there is something you can do - see post #2 in this thread. Emerge libstdc++-v3

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

This is due to the behavior described in bug 161953 "|| ( x y ) prefers y if any version of y and no version of x is installed". This problem is somewhat exacerbated by the fact that the 3.3 series versions of sys-devel/gcc do not support -march=pentium-m, and so fail to compile on systems using that configuration.

Fixed a typo. -- desultory

WakkaDojo · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:02 am Post subject:

Good call on the not-supporting-pentium-m. I was trying to emerge firefox and it requested I emerge gcc-3.3.6. i thought that it couldn't be right because I had gcc-4.1.1 installed. Then I recalled that the -march=pentium-m option wasn't added until later versions of gcc, thus being consistent with your comment. Good call on just emerging libstdc++!

nesbittgeorge · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

I am trying to run emerge xorg-x11. As suggested, I ran emerge libstdc++-v3 which stopped the installer from trying to emerge gcc. However, it has now stopped with :

ERROR: dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1039: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1383: Called perl-module_src_compile
* perl-module.eclass, line 149: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* make ${mymake} || die "compilation failed"
* The die message:
* compilation failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1/temp/build.log'.
*

* Messages for package dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1:

*
* ERROR: dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 1701: Called dyn_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1039: Called qa_call 'src_compile'
* ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile
* ebuild.sh, line 1383: Called perl-module_src_compile
* perl-module.eclass, line 149: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* make ${mymake} || die "compilation failed"
* The die message:
* compilation failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34-r1/temp/build.log'.
*
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

nesbittgeorge · n00b Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

Solved. I just did "emerge perl" and then tried it again. It worked first time.

vvi · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 8

I have the same problem. I tried to emerge libstdc++ and it also wants to install GCC3. I did "emerge perl" - nothing changed.
Here is what I have:

skutnar · n00b Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 65

You must install sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 first. The tree shows that gcc-3 will fulfill virtual/libstdc++-v3.

vvi · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks, it works!

cshobe · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 10

This seems wrong. I ran into the issue the same way, by simply trying to install firefox and konqueror with the java USE flag. jdk 1.6 (why does it need jdk anyways, jre works fine by itself on amd64) seems to want libstdc++ (again, not required on amd64).

Also, the virtual/libstdc++ package wants to pull in the full gcc-3.3.6:

# emerge -va virtual/libstdc++

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1 USE="nls (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -doc -fortran -gcj -gtk (-hardened) -ip28 -ip32r10k (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -test -vanilla" 0 kB
[ebuild N ] virtual/libstdc++-3.3 0 kB

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someguy42 · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:38 am Post subject:

The extremely lovely bit is that this seems to happen when emerging xorg-x11 immediately after having performed a new install...
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Carlo · Developer Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 3356

@someguy42: Not quite. Only binary packages depend on virtual/libstdc++-3.3. Point is xorg-server optionally depends on x11-drivers/ati-drivers, which in turn....

The easiest way to get rid of the problem is to do the following:

echo "<sys-devel/gcc-4" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
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removed sticky
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