Hmmm. GCC Problem?

cjmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

Ok, was feeling a little adventurous and got myself in a bind.

I emerged gcc-3.3.2-r2 and then ran an emerge -U world, which updated a few packages (which all seem to work) and then it tried to update Openoffice-1.1, which of course failed, because it had been failing with the stable release of gcc.

So then I combed the discussions lists here and tried the -mno-sse2 thing and also read that someone had gotten it to work by emerging ccache. Well, I emerged ccache and started another build , which promptly failed (I am not that stressed about it), but THEN the compiler stopped working. So I promptly 'emerge -C ccache' and backed out of that, and it still wont compile. I get this error.

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bash-2.05b# emerge ccache
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-util/ccache-2.3 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-)

ccache-2.3.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ccache-2.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ccache-2.3/work
>>> Source unpacked.
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
configure: Configuring ccache
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

!!! ERROR: dev-util/ccache-2.3 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 77
!!! econf failed

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This is disturbing, since I cannot compile anything with emerge. my gcc -v looks like:

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bash-2.05b# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-3.3.2-r2/work/gcc-3.3.2/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/info --enable-shared --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu --with-system-zlib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java --enable-threads=posix --enable-long-long --disable-checking --enable-cstdio=stdio --enable-clocale=generic --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.2/include/g++-v3 --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --enable-shared --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib --enable-interpreter --enable-java-awt=xlib --with-x --disable-multilib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20031022 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r2, propolice)

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Question is... how do I get my compiler working again? Is there a binary I can download to rebuild it? ldconfig doesnt help and neither did a reboot. Any advice would be good.

-cjohn

irf2003 · Veteran Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 1078

have you tried
emerge -e gcc
??

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 9:36 pm Post subject:

The GCC 3.3 series are broken, don't use them (stick with 3.2.3).

cjmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

I dont mind going back to ANY version of gcc, but I cannot compile a thing in this state.

Why does it report that gcc 'cannot create executable files'?

-cjohn

dOcBrOwN · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject:

You don't want to use any version of gcc any longer? A

cd /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc
emerge gcc-3.2.3-r2.ebuild

doesn't work? I'm not sure if i understand your problem.
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cjmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

LOL...

Read the original...

When I try to emerge ANYTHING, the emerge bails out with:

gcc cannot create executable.

That makes it a little hard to build anything at all. I dont care what version of gcc I can get working so long as I can get ANY version working at all.

Oddly enough. gcc works fine outside of the emerge realm. So maybe I just go build a version of gcc by hand in some off directory and use that to rebuild gcc into my system. At any rate, this sucks! Otherwise very happy with gentoo.

-cjohn

cjmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

Ok, was able to rebuild with alternate version built by hand. Problem solved, but I have absolutely ZERO idea how the original copy got corrupted... Thank goodness my home machine is very high performance! LOL.. 8 mins to rebuild entire gcc package.

-cjohn

dOcBrOwN · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject:

What's the output of "echo $CC"? GCC is working outside emerge? That's strange.
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cjmace · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Sep 2003 Posts: 111

The output is simply...

gcc

Yes, it was very weird. I am going to notch it up as a one-off, since I can find no other reference to a similar type of problem.

-cjohn

lemosley01 · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 4

I was getting this same error concerning the C Compiler unable to create executables. After reading carefully over my CFLAGS I realized I had specified -mmx instead of -mmmx (notice the extra m).

Invalid flags appear to be one reason you'll get this error message

robmoss · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 6:39 pm Post subject:

You could extracted a stage1 tarball to / , then done a cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootstrap.sh && emerge -e system. This gets you out of any compiler-related troubles without fail, although you should make sure that you back up config files and similar before you extract that tarball...
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OneOfOne · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 368

i'd bet money its a cflags problem.
and gcc-3.3.x is NOT broken, i use gcc-3.3.2 and no problems at all.

peace

TheCoop · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject:

im running gcc-3.3.2-r2 no problems

extract a stage1 tarball to / and rebootstrap. I always keep a binary version of key packages (gcc,glibc,binutils,coreutils) around just in case i manage to b0rk something
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bendagr8 · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject:

I know it's an old subject but I was getting the same error message.

It turned out to be a CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS error (I had the same problem in both).

ares · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:55 am Post subject:

Reemerge binutils with gcc 3.3.2-rc5
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robmoss · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:59 am Post subject:

It's also a gcc-config problem sometimes - if so it can be fixed by doing

punkrokk · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Rochester, NY

I was missing a "-" in my cflags

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wrc1944 · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:36 am Post subject:

TheCoop,
That's a great tip!

"I always keep a binary version of key packages (gcc,glibc,binutils,coreutils) around just in case i manage to b0rk something"

Running two ~xf86 boxes, and coming from a windows background, I should have thought of that long ago!

Thanks,
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christsong84 · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 5:10 am Post subject:

EDIT: I've been in the computer field for years and I can't believe I forgot this simple rule..."when in doubt, reboot"

((btw: am typing this from lynx as I can't emerge mozilla

))

All is well now.

(I'm so embarassed)
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christsong84 · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:11 am Post subject: ok second thought

ok...this time I rebooted several times and consistently get the error...*sigh* I miss having everything just work on my old laptop...got a new computer and now everything's fsck'd...help? I get the cannot create executables error defined above running everything stable (e.g. non ~x86)
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friction · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Sep 2002 Posts: 109

Don't be embarressed, I just had the same problem after updating glibc. Looking on the forums turned up your thread, and one reboot later its all fixed

fimblo · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem, but discovered that one of my CFLAGS were misspellt after I saw punkrokk's solution...

yay
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JuhazOne · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem. I can't emerge anything.

When I try to emerge an older version of gcc, I get this:

robmoss · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject:

What do you get if you do:

JuhazOne · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject:

robmoss2k: