gentoo emerge error

[Jerry McBride]

On Monday 09 May 2005 07:27 pm, Net Llama! wrote:

> For reasons that I'd rather not delve into at the moment, i'm setting up a
> gentoo stage3 system.
>
> I've gotten as far as 'Code Listing 17' on this page:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=7#genk
>ernel
>
> and the 'emerge coldplug' command is blowing up badly:
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/pciutils-2.1.11-r3/work/pciutils-2.1.11/lib'
> cc -O3 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wno-parentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC
> -c -o access.o access.c
> cc -O3 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
> -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wno-parentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC
> -c -o generic.o generic.c
> gcc: pipe: No such file or directory
> gcc: pipe: No such file or directory
> access.c:124: warning: unused parameter 'msg'
> make[1]: *** [generic.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[1]: *** [access.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/pciutils-2.1.11-r3/work/pciutils-2.1.11/lib'
> make: *** [lib] Error 2
>
> Anyone have any pointers on how to deal with this?

Look into /etc/make.conf... on the line that specifies CFLAG options, change 
"pipe" to "-pipe". Possibly CXXFLAGS also...

Jerry....