Re: gcc version issue trying to install vmware5

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Rupert Heesom <rupert@heesom.org.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:45 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Rupert Heesom <rupert@heesom.org.uk> writes:
>> 
>> > Just a note to let you know that I installed the vanilla kernel headers,
>> > and I had to redo the soft link of /usr/bin/gcc to /usr/bin/gcc-3.4.
>> 
>> No you don't. You should set CC.
>
> I did that to start with (kept it that way), but the vmware compile
> didn't like that, a very good error msg told me to change the s-link, so
> I did.  It then worked.
>
> Setting env CC probably works for most things.

Changing the link breaks your debian system.

MfG
        Goswin