Well, I tried emerging other packages which have failed due to compiler issues, so what I'm going to do is grab what packages I already have and the portage tree, take them home, and compile some of them there (I have all of the sources on CD I've downloaded in the past.) I'm just anxious to see how my efforts went here.

I also want to turn some of my other computers to Gentoo Linux machines. I run the web server, which has Mandrake 8.1 on it now, and I find emerging packages a whole lot more convenient than installing RPMs if i needed to update my machine, so at a convenient point I want to install Gentoo on my web server.

As far as the compiler went, I'm going to update gcc to 3.2.2 later and see if that helps.