Am Sa, den 03.01.2004 schrieb Fritz Whittington um 17:05: > On or about 2004-01-02 18:33, Ben Steeves whipped out a trusty #2 pencil > and scribbled: > > >On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Carey Jung wrote: > > > > > >>Anybody had any luck running Vmware on Fedora? I'm about to give it a > >>try and was just wondering. > >> > >> > > > >The archives are full of helpful suggestions on the matter, but I can > >summarize it by the following: > > > >- make sure you have the kernel-source installed for your running kernel > > > >- do 'export CC=gcc32' before running 'vmware-config.pl' > > > > > > > I've seen several posts with this 'export CC=gcc32' caveat and gather > that the FC1 kernel was compiled with gcc32, but the supplied default > compiler is gcc33. Correct. A simple head -n 1 /var/log/dmesg confirms that. > Couldn't we get around this problem by re-compiling > the kernel with gcc33, and then we'd be done with it? Question: Do you think Red Hat included and uses gcc32 just for fun? Answer: No. They had a reason: http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/fedora-kernel-faq.txt Q. Why is the kernel compiled with gcc32 ? A. It's a known-to-be-good compiler. The compiler used for everything else (3.3.2 as shipped with FC1) is somewhat newer. CU thl
