Sam, which LiveCD and stage tarball are you using (including dates). I'm trying to collect more data on this for some existing bug reports. Its been happening to a number of users. Its caused me hours of fun over the last couple of months. There are currently 4 bugs that I'm aware of in Bugzilla (http://bugs.gentoo.org) on this (12699, 24438, 28630, 34164). Part of the problem are some poorly chosen compile options when they built gcc in the 20030911 stage tarballs, but there are some other causes as well. Basically the check list is: - Make sure your CHOST and CFLAGS agree on which processor you are compiling for. In other words, in your case (if I'm remmebering your hardware correctly): CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 march=pentiumpro -pipe" - Make sure you don't have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" turned on during the bootstrap process. This generally always considered a bad idea. Wait to get your system working first, then go bleeding edge :-) - Lastly, make sure you've done the following before emerge portage for the first time: export USE="-* build bootstrap" Once you've emerge'd portage the first time do an: unset USE Hope something helps you out here. On Friday 30 January 2004 08:19 am, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > What a good day to sit and watch Gentoo compile "Inside"! > I did not get any date errors when I did the "emerge sync" this time. > Having the Compaq setup partition is necessary for a successful > Gentoo install. > This is because the compile is date very sensitive. > > The emerge sync finished over night, It told me to update Portage. > I looked on the Gentoo web site but didn't find anything directly > related to this. > > So I did "emerge Portage" I really hope that was the right thing to do. > Thinking outside the box (while in the house) sometimes helps the > learning curve. > I got the following error... > > Checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > See 'config.log' for more details. > configure: error: /bin/sh ' /.configure' failed for autoconf-lib-link > !!! ERROR: sys-devle/gettext-0.12.1 failed > !!! Function econf, line 324, Exitcode 1 > !!! econf failed > > > I have no clue what this is telling me, well other then it failed on the > C++ preprocessor sanity check > I looked in /var/log for "config.log" and didn't find it. I'm not sure > where to look for the "config.log" > > Sam. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Maas - Technology Architect Open Technology Systems, LLC ----------------------------------------------------------- eMail: bmaas at open-techsys.com Web: http://www.open-techsys.com Phone: 952.448.3121 Fax: 952.448.4944 Cell: 612.743.3674 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list