note 19462 deleted from faq.build by sniper

The advice here that there must be something wrong with glibc should _not_ suggest to you that you want to go grab the latest glibc tar from GNU and install it. That breaks gcc, and then if you grab the latest gcc from GNU and try to install it, well, it just may not work (after taking hours to almost finish building). Frankly, my glibc had always worked fine including with prior versions of PHP 4, but that microtime thing did bite, and I did believe the kind writer of this page who claimed there must be something wrong on my system. (If only GNU had just a bit better quality control on what _they're_ putting out, this wouldn't have been such a waste.) Ah, now to restore from backup.