Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alpha

From: davide cittaro <daweonline@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] difficulties with glibc and GCC
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:07:19
Message-Id: e937528f0608190907g6d5bdc47s5d1eb56e1e89eb11@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alpha] difficulties with glibc and GCC by jeff sacksteder
1 Which error do you have? I've recently emerge/update system to
2 default-linux/alpha/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.4.30 alpha
3 and, as far as I remember, it was painless...
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7 On 8/18/06, jeff sacksteder <jsacksteder@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >
9 > I'm currently using:
10 >
11 > glibc-2.3.2-r1
12 > gcc-3.2.3-r2
13 > linux 2.4
14 >
15 > I'm not able to compile a newer glibc with this setup, but newer versions
16 > of gcc require it. I would prefer not to take this server down for several
17 > days to reinstall. First I attempted to prepare a new chroot-ed enviroment
18 > so I could just cut over once it was ready, but 2.4/2.6 incompatabilities
19 > prevent me from doing that effectively. Secondly, I thought of getting a
20 > newer glibc out of GRP to bootstrap into a new enviroment rather than
21 > building it myself. There does not appear to be a GRP for Alpha. It seems I
22 > am stuck.
23 >
24 > Can anyone suggest an alternative to re-installation?
25 >
26 >