> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > > I have a working chroot now. Thanks.
> That's the easy way to do it, yes. > The hard way is to treat this as a cross-compilation problem and bootstrap > your own stages from scratch. Instructions would be a bit longer... > Andreas K. Hüttel I have looked through crossdev. Is that what it would take to cross-compile and bootstrap stages from scratch? Could that be done from (instead of an old glibc) musl, uClibc, or FreeBSD or NetBSD? Tom
