On Monday 26 February 2007 00:32:55 David Harel wrote:
> Trying to emerge glibc I got error:
>
> configure: error:
> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: gcc
>  *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.

>     1. What to do to fix glibc emerge?

Probably change to a newer version of gcc.  Perhaps the output of 
`gcc-config -l` would be useful here.

>     2. Where is the file INSTALL reside?

In the glibc tarball.  emerge will have extracted that somewhere 
under /var/tmp/portage (or wherever your PORTAGE_TMPDIR is).

>     2. Do I need all the older versions of gcc?

No.  (Or, probably not.)

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