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When try to emerge glibc-2.11 from older version you might get this error:

checking for cpuid.h... no
configure: error: gcc must provide the header
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2 failed:
* failed to configure glibc


To solve it get the cpuid.h file from official GCC respositories and put it into /usr/include. Check the name of the downloaded file to be “cpuid.h”.

Now, glibc should compile without problem.