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 -> aarch   
   4-unknown-linux-gnu.   
      
   Het leven is goed,   
   Maurice   
      
   ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.   
   --- GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-bonnell-linux-gnu)   
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