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Need general guide on how to build Linux Stream (LiS) under RedHat 6.2

Day 1 I have hit into some error, and the build simply fail, saying that there is some conflict. Thus I believe a .o file cannot be made and then result fatal error during linking, anyone have steps ...
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Errors during 32-bit glibc2.17 compile

I'm trying to compile the current glibc (2.17) from the official ftp on my machine (kernel 3.7.3). No patches or extras are applied. For x86_64 everything works fine, but I need the 32-Bit libs as ...
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Eglibc cannot compile suffix of object files while trying to cross compile

I'm currently making my way through Trac's CLFS book. When trying to configure the 32-bit version of EGLIBC-2.15, using the options: BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD32}" \ ...
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Can I build a linux distro with libc instead of glibc

I recently had a conversation with a friend who is a highly skill software engineer, and he showed me some articles outlining the fact libc was much better than glibc. I wonder if its possible to ...
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How/why can Firefox packages work on all Linuxes?

How/why can a Firefox 64bit (or 32bit) package work on different Linux distributions since each Linux distribution has a different version for gcc, glibc, linux kernel, etc. ?