can't seem to emerge anything anymore

Keep running into this line during /configure:

(this from emerge apache)

Invalid configuration `i686-pc-linux-oldld': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh build/config.sub i686-pc-linux-oldld failed

Now, as I think is pretty clear I know nothing about this. I saw "oldld" and thought hey maybe that's to do with ldconfig -- which i remember having to run after certain isntalls.

The only web resources i found on this error were ruby (?!) questions that weren't answered, and
http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/...ges/86795.html

which indicates (uh oh) that maybe i need gcc.

But I've successfully emerged other software on this machine. How did I do that without gcc?

emerging gcc gave me:
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
*** The command 'gcc -o conftest -O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.

Sounds like something I can do. Should I do it in make.conf? What should I set it to?

[EDIT/UPDATE]
make.conf has
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
that must not be right... checking handbook

err... check and make sure that binutils is installed, and make sure it's in the right directory

Re: can't seem to emerge anything anymore

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeFou

[EDIT/UPDATE]
make.conf has
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
that must not be right... checking handbook

That's what i have on my make.conf, i'm running an Athlon XP 1700+ jus so u know

could you paste the output of the command

Code:

emerge info

inside of 'code tags'
and yes you have gcc installed ...with gentoo you always have gcc!

and yes the CHOST is corrrect with the correct syntax