Hey, guys, for the 2 to 3 stage, try manually to complete an "emerge -e system". Something probably thinks this was already done, hence the bootstrap script reporting nothing to do.
The "emerge -e system" will re-emerge all of the system files as if they hadn't been done yet and will probably clean up this situation for you. -----Original Message----- From: Brett Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 2004.3 install failure during stage2->stage3, while installing gettext did you figure this out I also have this problem.. I would love to finish my install ;) On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:18:10 +0000, Jim Hatfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just started setting up a new machine to replace an old PIII. > > I booted off the minimal LiveCD and started with a stage 1 tarball. > I checked the md5sum before untarring it so I am sure it's OK. > > I edited etc/make.conf to set CPUTYPE to have -march=pentium4 and > -pipe. > > I set USE to "dvd alsa cdr". I did the locale stuff in code > listing 10 in section 6.a of the install guide. > > I did the optional "bootstrap.sh -f" in code listing 13 of 6.c. > When I then did just bootstrap.sh it said that that it had already > been done and did I want to do it again. When I confirmed it came > back with "nothing to do", taking no time, contrary to the manual > which suggests this should take some time. > > When I then ran "emerge system" it failed quite early on. These > were the final few lines (copied by hand): > > >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-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r2 failed > > I couldn't find a config.log in any obvious place. > > What to do now? > > Unless anyone has any ideas I will repeat the install, leaving out the > "bootstrap.sh -f" stage, in case that had anything to do with it. > > A couple of other funnies: mirrorselect failed with (I think) a python > error, dumping binary all over the screen. Also I had previously > fetched the stage tarball to another machine, intending to pull it > across via ftp, but the livecd doesn't seem to have an ftp client. > links2 is nasty, it displays the contents of the tarball on screen > (even though it saves OK, it's ugly). > > jim > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
