binutils upgrade (to 2.15.92.0.2-r3) causes gcc to segfault

Philantrop · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:

Ok, now I have no "as" at all anymore and can't compile anything again. The binaries you provided, kimchi_sg, didn't help either.

How do I get out of this?

cybertron · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 65 Location: Sweden

philatrop:

This is how I have done it ...twice

I downloaded the binaries from this thread and untarred them : tar -xvjf binutils.tar.bz2 -C /
then I masked binutils-version-r3 and r4 then emerge binutils (which would be binutils r1)

hope this helps?!
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firephoto · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

Why are you guys untarring things? Is "emerge binutils -k" broke too?

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Philantrop · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject:

Well, I downloaded the binaries, too, but "as" (nor any other of the binutils) doesn't seem to be usable. Neither before nor after untarring the binaries.

Now any ideas would be appreciated.

firephoto · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

So if binutils is broke then "emerge" doesn't work? I thought it just broke compiling?

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Philantrop · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject:

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Philantrop · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

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Philantrop · Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject:

Syylk · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 37 Location: Roma (IT)

My experience with this.

Got bit by the bug, and started worrying if my cardiovascular system was up to the task of "~x86"!

Since I update quite often (once every three/four days or so), I had the binutils-r1 bin package lying around. I masked the -r3 and -r4 ones, and issued

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Sipi · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 406 Location: Hungary

Well, you do not has as anymore...
Well, do did not follow my advice...

Now, you should try the other thiongs in that post. It looks like you have the old env files on your system, so, these points to nonexistant places, directories to find as.

Please, try the unmerge, or at least try to delete the settings from the env.d dir (and env-update and source /etc/profile).

It WILL work if you do understand what and why to do. If not, just try to do it. It works, I promise.

BTW: you stated that it is a big mistake to make the error twice.

Khm... So, you tried to install an ~x86 package again without FEATURES="maketest"? I tried it, and it failed again.
So, maybe there are steps which _you_ can do to avoid problems, not just for the developers...

Regards,
Sipi

jeremy whiting · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 159 Location: UT

Hi, same problem here, after I got -r3 emerge keeps complaining that "as" segfaults, so I did

dentharg · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

Hmm.. I did almost the same as you. I unmerged binutils and then *emerged* binary package, downloaded from the site, not untarred it.
Everything works fine.

zaanpenguin · Apprentice Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Posts: 203

Last update:

ftp://ftp.ruled.org/pub/Gentoo now contains 'real' binary packages made with quickpkg and an updated README on how to install them.

Have fun.
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lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

This is quite unbelievable, r3 broken fair enough. Why didn't the dev hard mask the r4 until they know it works?
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UncleOwen · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject:

Because some people kept yelling "We need a fix ASAP". Well, you get what you deserve.

vetienne · n00b Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 17 Location: France

Philantrop, I had exactly the same problem as you (No more as ). I have also dowload last r4 and untar it with no succes. It appears that the directory bin under /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (replace with your gcc config) doesn't exist.
I have just recreate it. In this directory there"s a symlink to each file in /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/binutils/2/15.0.92

I have had manually those symlink and gcc works again.

After that i reemerge binutils r1 and everythings seems ok (the emerge as delete the sumlink and replace it with the real file ). Something should have change between the 2 versions and with the different manipulation something has break.

Hopes it could help you.

JKT7 · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 16

Thank you vetienne, that worked for me.

I had the same problem as everyone else - I got the borked -r3 version. Here's what I did to attempt to fix it.

Downloaded the binutils tar from ftp://ftp.ruled.org/pub/Gentoo/ and ran these commands

kimchi_sg · Advocate Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 2968