something strange on install

[carpman]

Hello, i have installed getnoo on my ata hardware raid array from gentoo normal ide channel.

After much messing with grub i finally got it to boot but just got loads of number wizzing past, strange install seemd to go ok.

I reboot in normal gentoo and mount raid partitions, i looked into /usr/src/ and found nothing ... no linux sym link or kernel source.

i copied over gentoo source dir from normal install, the chrooted in to raid array install and tried make menconfig buit got follow error:

hamlet linux # make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r8/scripts/lxdialog'
Could not run/locate "gcc"

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r8/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2


ok, so i then tried emerging ncurses but got this error:

hamlet linux # emerge ncurses
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ncurses-5.3.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ncurses-5.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.3-r2/work
* Applying ncurses-5.3-xterm.patch... [ ok ]>>> 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.
Configuring NCURSES 5.3 ABI 5 (Sun Nov 2 13:50:43 GMT 2003)
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configuring for linux-gnu
checking for prefix... /usr
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

!!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 338, Exitcode 77
!!! econf failed




What has happend between installing (from stage1) and rebooting ?

[J.M.I.T.]

you should have done env-update && source /etc/profile before doing make menuconfig... anyway... it seems that you haven't followed the gentoo installation closely... cause i can't imagine why there should be nothing in /usr/src if you have installed kernel sources correctly...
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[carpman]