Catch-22 emerging make?

[OrezzerO90]

I did a emerge -C make (dont ask)

now I am trying to emerge make but it needs make to make make!

???


#emerge -k make

<snip>
config.status: creating po/Makefile
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 32: make: command not found

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/make-3.80 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 127
!!! (no error message)




#emerge make


<snip>
config.status: creating po/Makefile
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 32: make: command not found

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/make-3.80 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 127
!!! (no error message)


# ls -la /usr/portage/sys-devel/make
total 22
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 240 Jul 22 16:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 920 Aug 22 2003 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522 Jul 6 04:10 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 438 Jul 6 04:10 Manifest
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 Jul 22 16:09 files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1150 Feb 13 2003 make-3.79.1-r4.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1135 Feb 13 2003 make-3.79.1-r5.ebuild
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1145 Jul 6 04:10 make-3.80.ebuild

[fishhead]

You could try copping make and the files it needs (if any) from your install CD.

[OrezzerO90]

Well, I did that actually.

I copied all of the portage from both CDs after installation (v1.4) per the optional instructions in the install doc.

I *thought* that the 'emerge -k make' would grab the pre-compiled binary from the portage, thus not needing make to install it.

Alas, no luck.

Any other ideas?

Anyone?

Bueller.........Bueller.........Bueller........

[OrezzerO90]

I finally grabbed the /usr/bin/make binary from my old RH6.2 box (what I am trying to migrate from) and was able to do an 'emerge make'.

The /usr/bin/make got replaced, so I guess I worked around it.

I would like to know how I could have gotten out of that scenario using emerge, or if it was impossible.

[Pythonhead]