[SOLVED] HELP! Typed emerge -C gcc instead of emerge -P gcc

Herring42 · Last edited by Herring42 on Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:57 pm; edited 1 time in total

As per title:

Typed emerge -C gcc instead of emerge -P gcc

What bits of gcc do I need to copy from a working system to get this machine working again? The executable... what else?
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kexik · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2011 Posts: 5

Have you tried emerge -av gcc again?
It may compile without the compiler... I am not sure

Herring42 · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:11 pm Post subject:

First thing I tried, but no, you need gcc to emerge gcc.
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Veldrin · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:16 pm Post subject:

luckily there is tindebox

just grab a suitable binary, place it in /usr/portage/packages and run emerge -k to use the bin package.
then rebuild gcc with you own flags.

If you need more details (or detailed instructions), just ask.

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Herring42 · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 4:57 pm Post subject:

You star!!

Perfect, thank you! :-D

For other readers, the bin package needs to be put in the category sub folder:
NOTE: I'm using portage 2.2!

wrc1944 · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject:

FWIW, the Tinderbox is great, but it's also a good idea to occassionally make some quickpkgs of gcc and rest of the toolchain, so as to have a somewhat current binary versions of critical packages. Just a "quickpkg gcc binutils etc. etc." Doesn't take but a few seconds, doesn't use much disk space, and can save a lot of trouble if something happens. I also do gmp, as I recently ran into a problem where I couldn't compile anything because of that one.

BTW, sometimes tinderbox doesn't have the required version right away (especially if you're running ~Arch).
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