On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:31, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Oct 3, 2003, Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:19, Chris Vanhoof wrote: > >> Different compilers were used. Let the Nvidia installer think the > >> kernel was compiled with gcc-3.2 ; > >> > >> # CC=gcc32 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run > > > IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 sh NVIDIA... > > > is the documented way of doing the same, just for completeness' sake. > > Documented but wrong. It's not safe to use a different compiler to > build a module than the compiler used to build the kernel. Small > differences between the ABIs implemented by the compilers could render > the whole system unstable. True enough, but we don't get the exact compiler the kernel was compiled with. It appears (for my current kernel, 2.4.22-1.2061.nptl) that it's "gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)", which definitely isn't the version of gcc I have from Severn, "gcc version 3.3.1 20030915 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.1-5)" - what choice do users have then? :( -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
