On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > AFAICT, you are suddenly not allowed to have gcc 4.9 installed > alongside any older versions -- even though they're supposedly in > slots. > > This is odd, because my system has had 4.9.whatever along with 3-4 > older versions for some time and been perfectly happy. > > So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6.
Ouch! I was asking what you had, not suggesting removing anything yet. I would've recommended removing the old versions and keeping 4.9.3 if anything. > > I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it installed). > > emerge is now happy and willing to upgrade gcc from 4.6 to 4.9 -- but > it can't: now the build of 4.9.3 is failing. It appears I can no > longer build _anything_. > > My system seems to be well and truly borked. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1009338-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html where someone else destroyed their gcc, and downloaded and untarred a binary tarball of gcc, to save their system. I can't seem to get http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org to respond. Was that part of the re-organization of the gentoo.org website? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
