Turns out the system felt that my gcc compiler was outdated.
But I had updated it to the latest gentoo-stable version.
Well, yes and no. Here's what I learned:
gcc-config --list-profiles
Will list the various gcc versions installed on your system. The current one is marked with an asterisk.
gcc-config #
Where # is a number from the list shown from above, will switch your compiler to the specified version.
Now I can compile glibc using the latest gcc.
Hopefully I won't have to recompile the whole system because of this compiler switch... I'll update this post whether I do or don't.
So far, no need to recompile anything. Everything works fine.
UPDATE
December 7th 2006
I'm not sure its related to the gcc-config, but I bet it is...
See I don't use KDE all that much. I run my web servers and test things out.
So when I tried to log back into KDE, I noticed that it wasn't working anymore.
So I tried to update and recompile everything kde-related. Nothing works. kdemultimedia keeps finding excuses not to compile.
I got it further and further along as I found some modules which didn't show up as dependencies (?) even when using emerge --deep
So I ended up giving up my hopes of not having to recompile planet linux and an now running:
emerge -e world
