I broke my gcc

tmmacleo · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 1

I would consider myself an intermediate user, but there's still a few things I need to learn. For this reason, and to make a long story short, I currently do not have a compiler. If you could imagine a working setup without a compiler, what advice would you give this poor soul to get it reinstalled? Here's what I've tried so far...

1) I tried an rpm, but that doesn't work... too many dependencies needed (do I need to find those?)

2) I installed gentoo within a temporary directory, chrooted it and built gcc. I then copied everything over to my / directory in the respective places, but no go.

I REALLY need some help with this, I feel naked having linux and no compiler. I'd appreciate any feedback.

-Tom

metalhedd · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject:

There is a portage rescue tarball on the boot CD I believe, or downloadable from here somewhere.... I wish i could give you more details but i've never had to use it... If you search the forums for "unmerge python" I'm sure you'll come across the solution. (assuming that the rescue tarball can restore a compiler.

rac · Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2002 2:00 am Post subject:

No, the portage rescue tarball won't work. Boot from the install disk. Mount your filesystems somewhere as if you were going to reinstall, but do not chroot yet. Look in /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-[version] for a CONTENTS file. If the version of gcc on the CD you are booting from is different from the one you used to have, you may have to extract this CONTENTS file from the stage tarball instead, in which case booting from the install disk is not really necessary.