I know debian has two different versions of gcc available, and they can be installed simultaneously. They're installed as gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95 and gcc is a symlink to one or the other, depending on ...

Since I was compiling on a 2.4 kernel, this would mean that my new glibc would have no viable threading model, which is, in hindsight, likely why the threading sanity check threw up on me.<br><br>Also ...