Okay, but - just for my understanding - why isn't it possible to have glibc in prefix ?
Am 24.09.2011 15:02, schrieb Fabian Groffen: > On 24-09-2011 08:58:00 -0400, Martin Luessi wrote: >>>> If my time allows it, I'll look into it in five minutes, this is just a >>>> message to everyone having this issue that there may be a light on the >>>> horizon! ;) >>> >>> try USE=vanilla, see if that works >> >> Be careful with that. I was able to install gcc 4.5 using -vanilla bit >> then later on random packages would fail to compile. In particular I >> had a problem with libxml2, which seemed to get linked to system >> libraries instead of the ones in prefix. I'm not sure if this is >> related, all I know is that the problem goes away when using gcc 4.2. > > You're absolutely right. It was meant as try to see if one of the > patches affected the build. The produced GCC is unusable in Prefix > indeed. > >> Also, have a look at the gcc ebuild the regular portage tree, gcc >> 4.5.2 requires >=glibc.2.8, I assume there is a reason for that. > > -- Moritz Schlarb
