I have an older system, where I really need the extra compile speed gcc2 provides. So I build my system using the gcc2 build profile. Along the way I bumped into several issues... First, the gcc-2.95.3-r9 ebuild is broken when built from stage1 because it needs autoconf, where isn't there. I used the older r8 ebuild, and it worked just fine! Second, when using the gcc2 profile out of the box (using glibc 2.2.5-r10), libsandbox would complain it needed GLIBC_2.3 Third, when changing the glibc in the gcc2 profile to glibc 2.3.5, the glibc build process would complain, glibc 2.3.5 needs a newer gcc then 2.95. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: The easiest way to resolve these issues would probably be to downgrade gcc-2.95.3-r9 to r8 and the force the use of an older libsandbox, but when did the GLIBC_2.3 dependancy come into play?
What stage did you use, as an old gcc2 stage1 should not have glibc_2.3 issues ...
I used this one: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.0/stages/x86/stage1-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2 Anyway the oldest stages I can find are from 2004.0, and those are probably with gcc 3.2.3. Is the glibc 2.3.5 dependancy really needed for libsandbox? Isn't it possible to do a stage1 without libsandbox?
Yeah, you cannot use those stage .. they with gcc-3.3.x. If you really want to try, add '-sandbox' to FEATURES, and rebuild sandbox against glibc-2.2.5.
@azarah: CANTFIX?
Hmm probably... When I tried using -sandbox, the build process went fine, until I stumbled upon an error, which after some googling had something to do with glibc 2.3.x being backward incompatible with glibc 2.2.x. So this was a no go! Then I found a historical stage1 tarball, but on this tarball, I couldn't get portage properly running, because it was too much out of date. (Yes, I tried emerge portage itself first, but that wouldn't work either). So I finally gave up... So, CANTFIX would probably be very appropriate! Anyway thanks for the suggestions.
Somebody with a gcc2 box that is fairly up to date, and catalyst knowledge needs to build some stages I guess :/
