I'm doing a fresh 32-bit install on an older Dell with an AMD K8, for experimentation. I'm getting a build failure on gcc as listed below. I start off my USE variable with "-*" and then add on stuff as necessary. A Google search turned up http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/dev/242446 where vapier says...
> this way when i do cut over from USE=nocxx to USE=cxx, we don't end > up with users missing C++ compilers simply because they have old > make.conf settings that started out with: > USE="-* ..." That appears to be relavant to me. But I'm not a developer, and I don't claim to totally understand what he's talking about. I do have some ebuilds that use C++. Should I add "cxx" to my USE variable? The build error message follows... * Fixing misc issues in configure files * Applying gcc-configure-texinfo.patch ... * Touching generated files * Touching gcc/cstamp-h.in * Touching gcc/config.in * Touching libjava/aclocal.m4 * Touching libjava/Makefile.in * Touching libjava/configure * Applying gcc-spec-env.patch ... >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r1/work >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r1/work/gcc-4.5.3 >>> ... * CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" * CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" * Configuring gcc ... * We are migrating USE=nocxx to USE=cxx, but your USE settings do not make * sense. Please make sure these two flags line up logically in your setup. * ERROR: sys-devel/gcc-4.5.3-r1 failed (compile phase): * USE='cxx nocxx' and USE='-cxx -nocxx' make no sense * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile * environment, line 4463: Called toolchain_src_compile * environment, line 5158: Called gcc_do_configure * environment, line 2417: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "USE='cxx nocxx' and USE='-cxx -nocxx' make no sense"; * -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
