Emerge and errors

[m21att1]

Hi all, I'm fairly new to linux, only a month or two's experience, but i'm getting the following error when trying to run emerge

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

!!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
!!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?

I've never had this problem before and everything has been working fine, now all of a sudden I get this? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm not sure where to start. The make.profile file is listed when I do an ls, but when i try to open it says "make.profile: No such file or directory" Thanks an advance for any help you can give me.

[onlinebacon]

Sounds like you made a mistake when you installed it, when you install portage during the gentoo installation, you have to set a few variables, arch, use and that sort of thing, it sounds like you made a mistake when you were writing them, try and go back to where they are, and set the ARCH again to whatever platform you use.

Although I could be wrong, I dont use gentoo and havent in a while

[m21att1]

Wouldn't it have not worked in the first place though. It's been working properly for the last couple of months, I was then trying to update clamav and got that error.

[m21att1]

here are the details when i use emerge info
emerge info
[Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686)
================================================== ===============
System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=""
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="berkdb bzlib calendar crypt ctype curl dbm dbx dvd ftp gd gdbm gif imap innodb ipv6 java jpeg kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww mime msql mssql mysql mysqli ncurses odbc pdflib perl php png postgres python readline samba session shared sharedmem simplexml snmp sockets spell ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer usb vhosts x86 xml xml2 zlib"

[m21att1]

nevermind everyone I think I've fixed it. rm make.profile and then pointed to the correct file. everything is working now. thanks