Hallo Benny!

 BP> funtoo develoopers was still using gentoo :)

Ah!  That explains it nicely.  :-)

 BP> at that time it took long to compile glibc when it was updated

It still does.  Speaking of which I *finally* figured out what I was doing 
wrong and it wasn't glibc but the first stage gcc instead.  It turns out I 
missed one header file's reconfiguration of ld to point to /tools/lib/ instead 
of /usr/lib/.  I knew it would turn out to be something very simple.  
:::shaking my head:::

 BP> i lost intrest in redhat when it killed redhat free update
 BP> support

Myself I lost interest way back in 4.something-or-other when they were bragging 
that they had no y2k issues.  Turned out they were wrong as I found at least 
one app (gui scheduling thingy) that was obviously plagued.  That was in 
1996-ish if I remember correctly.

 BP> asking users to just change to some other precompiled things
 BP> would be like ask me to install cpm on x86 :)

Heh, heh.

 BP> you can say it more polite precompiled problems :)

I could but I didn't.

Now that the glibc issue has been dealt with I find myself waiting for the 
raspberry pi to finish the stage 2 compiler (gcc and g++) so I can use it to 
crosscompile a 64 bit kernel (v4.19.1) and see if that can properly get in sync 
before taking on the stage 3 compile and call it native.  If it works out then 
it will be the latest pure 64 bit build in the mix -> 
aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
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