fake:

package/base/glibc/glibc.conf

@@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ esac
 
 pkg_glibc_linuxthreads=1
 [ "$ROCKCFG_PKG_GLIBC23_LINUXTHREADS" = "0" ] && pkg_glibc_linuxthreads=0
-[[ $xpkg = *24 ]] && pkg_glibc_linuxthreads=0
 
 # fall back to linuxthreads for cross glibcs
 [ -n "$pkg_glibc_cross" ] && pkg_glibc_linuxthreads=1
 
+[ "${pkg_glibc_version}" = "24" ] && pkg_glibc_linuxthreads=0
+
 # Give a more descriptive error message than the one that would happen during the build.
 kernel_mainline="`uname -r | cut -f-2 -d'.'`"
 if [ $pkg_glibc_linuxthreads = 0 -a "$kernel_mainline" != "2.6" ] ; then
@@ -369,6 +370,10 @@ glibc_prepatch() {
 	if [ $pkg_glibc_linuxthreads = 1 -a -f $archdir/*linuxthreads*.tar.bz2 ]; then
 		tar $taropt $archdir/*linuxthreads*.tar.bz2
 	fi
+	if [ "${pkg_glibc_version}" = "24" ] ; then
+		echo "extracting glibc-ports"
+		tar $taropt $archdir/glibc-ports-2.4*.tar.bz2
+	fi
 }
 
 glibc_stage0() {

package/base/glibc/glibc.desc

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 #if xpkg == glibc24.*
 [V] 2.4
 [D] 1764169258 glibc-2.4.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
+[D] 1792690402 glibc-ports-2.4.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
 #endif
 
 [CD] <COPY> cp $cachedir/glibc2[23].cache $confdir/$pkg.cache