general ports problem

[cwt]

Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:03, cwt <marshc187 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> On Dec 27, 2008, at 5:10, t-u-t <marshc187 at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:marshc187 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com 
>>>> <mailto:yanefbsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    On Dec 26, 2008, at 22:57, Peter Jeremy
>>>>    <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
>>>>    <mailto:peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        On 2008-Dec-27 02:38:41 +0100, t-u-t <marshc187 at gmail.com
>>>>        <mailto:marshc187 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>            On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Garrett Cooper
>>>>            <yanefbsd at gmail.com <mailto:yanefbsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>                A config.log file would help too..
>>>>
>>>>            oh, i thought that would be too long. i have attached one
>>>>            from a port i just
>>>>            chose at random now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        Unfortunately, it got deleted by mailman.  Can you post one
>>>>        of the
>>>>        shorter logs somewhere (eg pastebin.ca <http://pastebin.ca>).
>>>>         Also, what does 'gcc -V'
>>>>        report and can you manually compile (eg) a "hello world"?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    He's using the stock compiler and it appears that ld is screwed
>>>>    up because it fires back an error when linking. I'll forward you
>>>>    the log in my next email.
>>>>    Thanks,
>>>>    -Garrett
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i tried hello world, here's the output.
>>>>
>>>> $ gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello
>>>> /usr/bin/ld:built in linker script:2: syntax error
>>>> -- 
>>>> ce la vie
>>>
>>> Yup. Your binutils is hosed :(.
>>> -Garrett
>> thanks for your help.
>> i tried to give buildworld a try a moment ago before anything, but 
>> also got the above ld error.
>
> I'd just reinstall the developer package from sysinstall to be honest. 
> That should do the trick. Then we wash, rinse, and repeat all the 
> steps to get a working ports install of stuff.
>
> The question is how did binutils get fubared?
>
> -Garrett
>
beats me, if you were actually asking.
i usually have some trouble building world on amd64, but always 
somewhere in gnu tree. this week it didn't fail and seemed
to build and install ok, but apparently...

thanks again, i reinstalled base off install discs.