gentoo bootstrap problem

[tony_yum]

I followed the guild to install gentoo and everything went smoothly until I did script/bootscrap.sh

During the configure checking stage I get this.

checking for compiler default output . . . configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See 'config.log' for more details
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for autoconf-lib-link

!!! ERROR: sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 failed.
!!! Function econf, Lin 365, Exitcode 1
!!! econd failed

I couldn't find config.log to see more detail. Does anyone know what the message mean? I was guessing that maybe the permission was set to non writable in some places so it couldn't create the files, but this is not true.


Please help. I am really looking forward to using gentoo

[hard candy]

Invalid flags may be one reason you get this error message- try double checking your USE flags and make sure they are spelled correctly and have the proper number of letters in "mmmc" and "sse", etc. Also, -O3 or -O2 should be the letter "O' not zero.

[panther]

post the output from

nano /etc/make.conf

look yous CFLAGS if are the same for your processor

the gentoo handbook is very usefull

[tony_yum]

OH thanx guyz. I started the whole installation process again (taking hours!!) but it works now. Cheers :)