> On 7 Mar 2017, at 16:14, White, Phil <whit...@manx.biz> wrote: > > OK - talking this through is helping. I *have* done something strange here. > The currently installed version is 4.9.4 (from gcc --version), except that > portage believes that 5.4.0 is installed.
Could you `grep -i gcc /var/lib/portage/world*` please? A copy of the whole world file(s) would be great, in fact, ideally as plain text attachments. Also, any chance you could set your mailer to send only plain text emails to the list? Cheers, Stroller.