I was so happy yesterday that I’ve successfully figured out what was needed to upgrade gcc on my Gentoo system.

Boy, was I in for an unpleasant surprise.

Late last night I tried to upgrade gcc on yet another fresh Gentoo install (meaning: directly after stage3+portage tarball extract plus a portage update). Remembering the previous experience, I gave the VM a 5 GB vHD.

And again I failed horribly. Even tried esoteric tactis like removing -pipe from CFLAGS and setting MAKEOPTS to -j1, to no avail. I keep getting this strange error:

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu internal error

or something like that.

I haven’t given up, though. Today I’m going to double-check my new VM, ensuring that it’s identical in every aspect, and retry upgrading gcc.

Wish me luck. And I promise to post any update.

Until my next dispatch then. Keep strong.