%general-entities; ]> Glibc This architecture does not support NPTL. So we need to untar the glibc-ports-&glibc-ports-version;.tar.bz2 and move the linuxthreads directories. The following commands will accomplish the task: tar jxvf glibc-ports-&glibc-ports-version;.tar.bz2 \ --strip-components=1 glibc-&glibc-ports-version;/linuxthreads* NPTL is not supported on Sparc v8 and below, so we need to remove the NPTL from our build. We do this by removing the NPTL directories: rm -rf nptl*