Hi! Thanks for your reply! > > Look, you DON'T want to play with NPTL if you are still struggling to > > meet dependencies. > > > > The ebuild gave you enough info for you to go off on your own and > > satisfy what it was asking for by manually unmasking some stuff, > > slotting it appropriately if it isn't already, etc etc etc.
Ok, I'm a newbie in Gentoo. Right. I don't know how work the ebuild process, and AFAIK there is no document explaining how it works in all extend. That's what I'm missing. > > To play with glibc, you MUST be proficient in all-of-the-above, > > including portage, compilers, the kernel, patching (you must patch > > your 2.6 kernel), etc etc. You've demonstrated that you are not. A stupid question? How Does someone become proficient? Don't you thing that at a given point, he has to give a try? And make mistakes? And learn from that mistakes? Until he slowly performs better and better. And utimatively become "proficient"? Don't you think that "Every Guru was first a beginner"? (I don't know if you ever learn a foreign language for instance. But if you want to master another language, that's definitively the way to proceed). > > Start smaller. I choose to try Gentoo for 2 reasons: 1- First, I want to evaluate this distro for business proposes (which means among other things, getting a stable OS version etc.) So, for this case, yes I definitively agree with you. Actually, I built a version using much of the "stable" released offered by Gentoo (Ok, I "just" put some optimization flags in the CFLAGS to improve the code on the machine I'm running). 2- Second, I want to evaluate Gentoo for "hacker" purposes (i.e. my private use). It's clear that I'm willing to try every "dangerous" things. I don't see why I shouldn't? And if you are interested about my motivation. That's more just than just the "Yeah, I'm running the BEST technology on the earth" (I feel such claims just sooo *stupid*) First I need NPTL to answer the questions related to this implementation on c.p.t. Second, I'm bored of LinuxThreads, because I master it (as 'simple' user + internal). Third, I have fun in learning new things. And forth - I will probably get flammed for this one - Linux is _not_ the BEST Unix technology available on the market... But, fact is that I'm *LOVING* this OS. Are you saying that I'm simply just too stupid to use Gentoo and that I should switch to RH instead? Which could be, everyone has a limit after all! Or maybe it's not the right mailing list to discuss such a topic like NPTL v0.55 ??? Regards, Loic. -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test -------------------------------------------------- 1. GMX TopMail - Platz 1 und Testsieger! 2. GMX ProMail - Platz 2 und Preis-Qualitätssieger! 3. Arcor - 4. web.de - 5. T-Online - 6. freenet.de - 7. daybyday - 8. e-Post -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
