Re: Another quiet question

Leif, lose the attitude. You are asking questions of this
list and 
asking the list to do work ascertaining what you have done
and what you 
are capable of doing. Please read
ht
tp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
We know nothing of your problems except that you can cut and
paste 
errors. I am not offended by your terseness, just frustrated
that you 
aren't being forthcoming with more information, which would
allow people 
to immediately help or state inability to help past where
you have 
already got to. The extra information you have given below
doesn't 
particularly help and as I think you want the problem fixed
I suggest 
you become involved in the solution instead of expecting a
solution to 
be given to you because you are using gentoo's product. Open
source tech 
support doesn't work like that unless you have a support
contract (== $$$)
Thanks
Hamish

Leif Sawyer wrote:
> Hamish Greig [mailto:hgreigbigpond.net.au] 
>> I think the reason no-one responds to your posts
are because 
>> they are not structured in any methodical way. No
sequence 
>> showing how you've already tried to investigate the
problem, 
>> just a post asking for an answer, which doesn't get
a lot of 
>> respect from people who've taken time and effort to
learn 
>> things already.
> 
> I'm sorry that my terseness offends your sensibilities.
 All
> the information that I had available was in the post,
i.e.,
> gcc failed to build.
> 
>> What more than this dump can you tell us about this
error? 
> 
> it's reproducable.  it's not caused by OOM, but
obviously by
> a build-level error, because certain objects that the
source
> code thinks should be available, aren't.  Perhaps
looking at
> the detail I provided a bit closer might reveal that
fact, in
> an obvious sort of manner (i.e., an ld error)
> 
>> What have you already done to investigate it? what
level of 
>> skill do you have in this area? are we expected to
fix it for 
>> you step by step or to guide you to a resolution?
> 
> Since I'm neither a maintainer, nor a GCC developer,
but simply
> a gentoo-sparc user, my job is to report the bugs that
I see.
> 
> If you are a developer or maintainer, one might
questions the
> validity in your stance of attacking users for not
providing
> the information that -you- feel is needed, instead of
simply
> asking for additional detail.
> 
> It's no wonder the list is dry and gentoo is losing
it's path.


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Leif, have you tried compiling the official latest gcc
release instead?

check this out..
http://gcc.
gnu.org/gcc-4.2/buildstat.html

I would take the latest gcc tarball and give it a shot. You
could
eventually find out if there's a problem with you build
environment or
your ebuild.

Hope it helps!

Regards,
jay_of_today

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