vmware 4.0 on Fedora?

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-01-03 11:23, Thorsten Leemhuis whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>Am Sa, den 03.01.2004 schrieb Fritz Whittington um 17:05:
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>>On or about 2004-01-02 18:33, Ben Steeves whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
>>and scribbled:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 19:42, Carey Jung wrote:
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>>>>Anybody had any luck running Vmware on Fedora?  I'm about to give it a
>>>>try and was just wondering.
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>>>The archives are full of helpful suggestions on the matter, but I can
>>>summarize it by the following:
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>>>- make sure you have the kernel-source installed for your running kernel
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>>>- do 'export CC=gcc32' before running 'vmware-config.pl'
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>>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.
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>Correct. A simple
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>head -n 1 /var/log/dmesg
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>confirms that.
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>>  Couldn't we get around this problem by re-compiling 
>>the kernel with gcc33, and then we'd be done with it?
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>Question: Do you think Red Hat included and uses gcc32 just for fun? 
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>Answer: No. They had a reason:
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>http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/fedora-kernel-faq.txt
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>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.
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>CU
>thl
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Thanks for the info!   I got a real chuckle out of that! :-) So, they 
use what they know to be good, but provide us poor shmucks who are 
compiling our own programs with a compiler they don't trust!  Obviously, 
when I run into a confusing bug in one of my own programs, the first 
thing I should do is compile it with gcc32, and see if the bug goes 
away!  What a great way to debug a new compiler!

Reading between the lines, I suspect they tried compiling the kernel 
with gcc33, and discovered too many things were broken....


-- 
Fritz Whittington
TI Alum - http://www.tialumni.org

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