Re: gcc version issue trying to install vmware5
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:10:08PM +0200, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote:
>
>>that doesn't help.
>>
>>The Makefile that comes with the kernel.org source clobbers any existing CC
>>and HOSTCC.
>>I don't think Debian has changed that behavior.
>
>
> The kernel makefile does the same as all other makefiles and works fine.
> It does NOT use the env, since make generally doesn't. it does work
> this way though:
>
> make HOSTCC=gcc-3.4 CC=gcc-3.4 menuconfig
>
> Add V=1 if you want to see what commands it is running.
>
> That is the _correct_ way to pass parameters to make and also how
> make-kpkg does it (through the variable MAKEFLAGS it uses for exactly that
> purpose)
Thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread. I like Goswin's idea
about putting the symlink in /usr/local/bin/, since this rules out the
possibility of a later gcc package install resulting in something
unintended. Anyway, I'm going to undo the symlink I have in place and see
if the issue can't be solved by passing the correct variables when invoking
make, and then I'll report back to the list.
tony
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