Hello. After emerging gcc 4.1.1, i tried to emerge glibc 2.4-r3. But then the build failed saying i had a kernel version too old. I'm using 2.6.17-r4, and it said needed >=2.6.9! I had other kernel versions installed in other slots, and after removing them it worked fine. So seems kernel version detection isn't correctly working... Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 Last Sync: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:20:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.0-r2, 2.0.26-r5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.modulix.net/gentoo/ http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.utf8" LINGUAS="fr ja" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts canna cjk cli crypt cups dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib immqt-bc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kernel_linux linguas_fr linguas_ja lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl ntpl ntplonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia vorbis xine xorg xpm xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Can you paste the actual error message? For glibc-2.4 you also need to add "nptlonly" to your USE flags, you're missing that one / have a typo there (you have "ntplonly" instead of "nptlonly").
no real information posted here; assuming user error
