Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
I'll let others deal with your other questions, because they require some thought and I am not sure if I remember enough of the re-install process to deal with it. But, a few comments that I hope may be helpful: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 04:41:15PM -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > (4) After editing the

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: > >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: >> >>> On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: >>> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 December 2008 22:42:15 Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > > I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > > > keywords > > > > reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:44:37 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > >>> I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > >>> keywords > >> > >> reinstall and never change this variable.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept > > keywords > > reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out > there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:28:09 pm Justin wrote: > >> Jeff Cranmer schrieb: >> >>> I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept >>> keywords >>> >> reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out >> there. Your s

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > I'm afraid you'll need to be a little more specific on the accept keywords > > reinstall and never change this variable. Stick to the many guides out there. Your system is broken and fixing takes the same effort than reinstalling. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 03:15:41 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > First avoid top posting > > > OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, > > and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the > > hard drive, how do I reinstall everythin

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
To clarify, when I try to run emerge -eav system, the first package which fails is sandbox. It advises me to try FEATURES=-sandbox emerge sandbox in response to the cannot run C compiled programs, but I still get the same error. My research on the web points me back towards gcc not being compi

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: First avoid top posting > OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and > it > is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the hard drive, > how do I reinstall everything? > boot livecd, mount the disc as described in the offi

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
OK - accepting that my system is broken, I've tried emerge -eav system, and it is failing due to several errors. Other than reformatting the hard drive, how do I reinstall everything? Where do I change the accept keywords variable? It isn't in my make.conf, and if I put an accept keywords lin

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: > >>> However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you >>> have attempted to downgrade glibc? >>> >> My fault missed the c. >> @Jeff >> Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment o

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 02:35:56 pm Justin wrote: > > However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you > > have attempted to downgrade glibc? > > My fault missed the c. > @Jeff > Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps > this will protect you fro

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> > > > > > Perhaps you should go back to a lower glib version. Latest versions of > > > such important packages might always have issues. > > > > What is the approved way to do this? > > There is no approved way to downgrade glibc. The output message from the > error you posted tells you why the

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
> > However, did you notice that the parent poster mentioned glib and you have > attempted to downgrade glibc? > > > My fault missed the c. @Jeff Please provide a emerge --info so that we can comment on it. Perhaps this will protect you from some more headache when reinstalling. signature.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 21 December 2008 21:09:33 Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote: > > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > >> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you > > >> can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a > > >> look

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 01:49:41 pm Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > >> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you > >> can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a > >> look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile > >

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: >> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you >> can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a >> look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile >> binary packages[1]. >> >> Or, why not just use a stage tarbal

Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 12:43:58 pm Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover > Jeff Cranmer squawked: > > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes > > checking for x86_64-pc-linu

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
> Hmm, if you have a separate machine with the same architecture, you > can build those binary packages yourself, just man emerge and take a > look at the buildpkg section. Alternatively, you can cross compile > binary packages[1]. > > Or, why not just use a stage tarball? > > HTH. > > Joe > > [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Penguin Lover Jeff Cranmer squawked: > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported > checking how to run

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Qian Qiao
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:30, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: >> > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: >> > > I have a problem with my gentoo system >> > > >> > > I am trying to update, and I get a C prepro

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:52:11 am Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: > > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > > I have a problem with my gentoo system > > > > > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails > > > sanity check error on a numbe

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:11:59 am Justin wrote: > Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > > I have a problem with my gentoo system > > > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity > > check error on a number of packages. > > > > After a bit of searching, the solution that I co

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Justin
Jeff Cranmer schrieb: > I have a problem with my gentoo system > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity > check error on a number of packages. > > After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to > recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunat

[gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
I have a problem with my gentoo system I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check error on a number of packages. After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is to recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile glibc,