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datrix
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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:11 am Post subject: Portage fails on C++ preprocessor |
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I'm installing portage (from stage 1) but its failing on ncurses-5.3-r1 with:
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***merging ncurses***
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check whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler ...no
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checking for builtin bool type ...no
checking how to run C++ preprocessor ....lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor fails sanity check
!!! Error: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1 failed
!!! Function econf, Line 273, Exitcode 1
!!! econf failed
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So I tried to get to the bottom of the problem. I typed :
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!!! no gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' to update this environment of this terminal ...
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I'm running gcc 3.2.2. (confirmed with gcc --version). Updating the environment doesn't help at all.
I also tried something unorthodox by skipping ncurses and emerging sys-libs/db ... but failed with
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!!! could not run/locate g++
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Result in similar 'error' messege :
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could no run/locate g++ or c++
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It seems that the compilers are giving me problems. Now I'm borKed down, I dont know how to procced and running out of ideas. How can I solve this one.
Thanks
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tawtao
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 3:24 am Post subject: |
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Just a guess ... check file,
/etc/make.conf
You might have to emerge gcc again.  |
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datrix
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for reply,
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Just a guess ... check file,
/etc/make.conf
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what should I check exactly; I'm using the (default) values in make.globals coz i'm still merging portage - and according to the installation guide I haven't got to the stage of using make.conf.
I'm in a chicken-and-egg problem coz, I need to first install ncurse and textinfo before I can install gcc (But I cant go thru ncurses  )
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calculating dependences ... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r1
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/textinfo-4.5
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r2 [3.2.2]
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... its getting tricky 
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tawtao
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:34 am Post subject: |
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Yap ... you right. 
I did extract stage1 tar ball and chroot to that directory. After env-update, I type in g++ and get the same error message.
So ... just check, did you do the following command?
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cd /usr/portage
scripts/bootstrap.sh
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According to gentoo installation guid, "bootstrap.sh will build binutils, gcc, gettext, and glibc, rebuilding gettext after glibc."
You said, you are using values from make.globals? You did not means that you copy file make.globals over make.conf. The only adjustment I did on the default make.conf is change i486 to i686. Oh ... you can not use "~x86" in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for the stage1.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:17 am Post subject: |
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try
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#source /etc/profile
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it might be as simple as you lost your enviroment variables. these would put them back.
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datrix
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| Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks DrkPlague and twatao:
Apparently my problem was related to portage. A
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solved my problems. I downloaded the latest version of portage FIRST and then continued with the rest of package (ncurse, textinfo etc). But 'emerge portage' is the opposite of that. It first merges dependences before merging portage
I thought I understood this thing ... coz the guide says you are to install portage before 'bootstraping' - which is what I was doing without success
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Klavs
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I just had this same problem, but found a quicker solution - and the reason why it came to be.
I found that it complained about /lib/cpp - which is owned by gcc-config, so I tried to recompile that, but couldn't, as it complained about some include problems.
I had earlier had to move /usr/include/linux dir to /usr/include/linux.orig, and symlink to my /usr/src/linux/include/linux directory to get alsa-driver to compile (it needed modversions.h), and after doing this alsa-driver compiled.
When I undid this last change, and recompiled gcc-config it all worked fine again.
Hope this helps someone
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| Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: don't fiddle with linux-headers |
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I had exactly the same /bin/cpp problem after I did emerge linux-headers-2.6.99. Downgrading to 2.4.26 helped.
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject: Re: don't fiddle with linux-headers |
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| lcj wrote: | | I had exactly the same /bin/cpp problem after I did emerge linux-headers-2.6.99. Downgrading to 2.4.26 helped. |
Same here, though for me, it was not downgrading; I didn't have any linux-headers on my system.
Edit: "it not" to "it was not" |
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