I did and I totally screwed up my system. I managed to fix it eventually by booting to a live CD and untaring the quickpkg I made into the / directory. I might have done something wrong to cause this but I'm not sure what it was. Anyways, make sure you do quickpkg before hand, and secondly, don't do it until you get some responses back from others who did it succesfully. Dave On 9/15/06, Remy Blank wrote: > > Has anybody tried updating glibc to the latest stable 2.4-r3, but > without also updating gcc to 4.1.1? Any problems? > > From the ebuild, >=sys-devel/gcc-3.4.4 should be supported. > > I'd like to do the updates separately if possible. > > Thanks. > -- Remy > > > Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca