make menuconfig fails

rommel · Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2002 7:38 pm Post subject: make menuconfig fails

this just started , but i cant run make menuconfig unless i source /etc/profile, as su to root this is what it tells me

rommel · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 2:04 am Post subject:

i diecided to try emerge -e system and still get the same error after it had finished compiling everything.....no one is getting this same behavior?

again i am using ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86" and other then that the only other thing is i am running xfree-4.2.99.3-r1 but i cant see how that would matter.

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 2:37 am Post subject:

Are you using gcc-3.2.1-rc6?
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rommel · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 3:55 am Post subject:

why yes mr. bastard i am....do you think its the source of this lil problem?

i submitted a bug....but like an idiot left the gcc version out...never did a bug before

pilla · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 4:14 am Post subject:

Yes, I've read here and there that this version may cause some problems and it is more a version for developers (it even puts an advisory about it when you emerge it).

I am running gcc-3.2.1 without problems, may I suggest you to try it? Maybe you'll need to download a tarball and copy the binaries of gcc if you aren't able to emerge it using your current version.

EDIT I think that the guy in this thread has the same problem. Let's see....
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ChazeFroy · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

I am also having this problem when trying to manually install Ethereal and Mozilla. The ./configure and make go fine (I believe), but when I su to root with bash, it begins compiling things again and it gets caught in an infinite loop.

I was beginning to suspect that it was the fault of /bin/install (part of fileutils), but I guess this is not the case. Now I just hope I can roll back to a previous version of gcc without issues

EDIT:
My flags:
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

My version of gcc is also 3.2.1-r6.

ChazeFroy · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

I just tried to emerge gcc-3.2.1-r5, and I now no longer have a gcc binary. Attempting to do manual installs (from tarballs), when running ./configure, says that the "C compiler cannot create executables" (because there's no longer a gcc installed in my $PATH).

I've heard that users are "warned" when installing these versions of gcc, but portage goes ahead and installs them, without interaction, a few seconds later. This does not help with an unattended installation. Something needs to be done to force user interaction, by default, when installing these dangerous "developer-only" packages.

EDIT:
I found a gcc binary in /usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2 and I copied that to /usr/bin. I'm now trying to build something from a tarball using this binary. I'll post a follow-up.

rommel · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 5:58 am Post subject:

well i wasnt ahving any issue (that i was aware of ) with compiling programs...i ahve nstalled several things today , all of which work fine.

but anyway....i did as you suggested and emerged gcc-3.2.1-r0 and my troubles are gone.....thanks you bloodybastard you.

ciao

ChazeFroy · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

The gcc I copied to /usr/bin (I suspect that it's gcc-3.2.1-r5, not -r6) produced the same results as the other gcc (-r6) when I tried to manually build packages from tarballs. I am now attempting to emerge gcc-3.2.1-r1 with this -r5 binary, hoping that it will work since I am not building it manually from a tarball.

ChazeFroy · n00b Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 27

Using gcc-3.2.1-r5, my gcc-3.2.1-r1 seems to have built fine from portage. Previously, I could not compile anything from tarballs using gcc-3.2.1-r5 or gcc-3.2.1-r6. I just compiled Ethereal from a tarball with this newly-installed gcc-3.2.1-r1 compiler and it worked!

rommel · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 8:18 am Post subject:

mmm...i do so love a happy ending....lol

pilla · Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject:

Moving to Dups, follow-ups to this thread.
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