warning, mips upgrading from clean2007.0 to latest is broken

calvinrsmith · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 23

I did an install 2007.0 which worked, and then I tried to upgrade my system to latest.
First error was that /etc/make.conf was now invalid, a quick forum check and that's fixed

Then I start the update by doing: emerge -uD system
This worked until binutils compiled
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1 [2.16.1-r3] USE="nls -multislot -multitarget -test -vanilla" 14,629 kB

After binutils emerged lots of stuff can no longer be emerged because of:
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.

I also have a lot of programs that complain about fpu exceptions, for example after emerging sysvinit:
/usr/portage/sys-apps/sysvinit/sysvinit-2.86-r8.ebuild: line 89: 14669 Floating point exception/sbin/telinit U >&/dev/null

I found a post on the list: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00605.xml
which claims the changes are due to hashstyle but did not have a solution

I can do a reinstall of the entire system to back to a working state and be very careful not to emerge bad broken things, but how do I know what things are bad / broken? is there a list? i am not running testing (~)

Anyone know how to fix this?

PS
info on my box:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type : SGI O2
processor : 0
cpu model : R5000 V2.1 FPU V1.0
BogoMIPS : 178.17
byteorder : big endian
wait instruction : yes
microsecond timers : yes
tlb_entries : 48
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : no
ASEs implemented :
VCED exceptions : not available
VCEI exceptions : not available

Redhatter · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

It's binutils, not the profile that's broken I suspect. Switch back to binutils-2.17 and you should be okay.

It should still be installed, select it using binutils-config.
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calvinrsmith · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 23

it's not that was my first idea binutils-config only lists a single binutils
and i can't simply reemerge binutils since the test for a working c compiler fails. plus i now get a lot of segfaults due to fpu exceptions, i tried a reboot and it boots to read-only single user mode, not sure why.
basically running the emerge -uD system broke the box, the only way to fix is to reinstall and not install the new binutils which to me says it should still be masked as ~mips