Hey Benny!

 BP> you should really try gentoo ;)

I don't see anything there that would help my particular cause.

 BP> nice, wish it was my pi3

I am hoping by this weekend it libc.so.6 will be synced with the just released
this morning gcc-7.2.0.  Hoaving said this I might revert back to gcc-4.9.4 for
aarch64 based raspi3's as I've had a couple total freeze ups trying to build a
new kernel with the snapshot version of gcc shown below;

----- ':read !gcc -v' starts
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/7.1.1/lto-wrapper
Target: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib --with-system-zlib
--enable-install-libiberty --disable-bootstrap
--build=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.1.1 20170808 (GCC)
----- ':read !gcc -v' ends

Not good but it might be my fault for taking a few steps too far into the
unknown.

 BP> (7.1.0) **7.1.0-r1^s

I am betting that will be 7.2.0 before too long.  It has only been out less
than a day now.

 BP> yes, and eath french fries all day :=)

No, and eat poutine all day.  It's a Québécois thing that has become a
Canadian replacement for french fries.  You obviously are confusing Canadians
with Americans.

Life is good,
Maurice

... No llores por mí tengo vi.
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