Hi, I need the glibc-2.2.5 for use with a properitary software that is linked with this old glibc. As I do understand the slot-system of gentoo, for libs it should be possible to emerge the current glibc-2.3.1 and the old glibc-2.2.5 at the same time. Isn't it? I figured out that compiling glibc-2.2.5 works only with gcc-3.2 not with gcc-3.2.1 So I tried the following: emerge --buildpackageonly sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.2.1-r7.ebuild emerge --buildpackageonly sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.1-r2.ebuild emerge --buildpackageonly sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.2-r4.ebuild emerge -K packages/All/gcc-3.2-r4.tbz2 emerge --buildpackageonly sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.5-r7.ebuild
and at last: emerge -K packages/All/glibc-2.2.5-r7.tbz2 And this was my last action... ;-) Instantly the fileutils (ls,cp, etc) didn't work any more, because the files of the glibc-2.3.1 were overwritten. That's the reason I took precautions with building the .tbz2s and so I were able to reinstall the current glibc. Ok. Here are the questions: Is it possible to install old and new glibc at the same time? What went wrong trying my way of installation? Is the answer out there? ;-) Thanks -- Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
