Re: Compiling a kernel module. gcc-3.3 vs. gcc-3.4

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:29:20PM +0100, James Hansen wrote:
> I'm having problems building and installing a kernel module for the
> amd64 port of debian.
> 
> It seems that debian is shipped with gcc-3.3 as it's compiler, but it
> looks like the amd64 kernel is built with gcc-3.4
> 
> (from a syslog message I'm getting when I modprobe a driver)
> 
> Oct 14 16:54:39 localhost kernel: mydriver: version magic
> '2.6.8-11-amd64-generic gcc-3.3' should be '2.6.8-11-amd64-generic gcc-3.4'
> 
> Is this actually the case, and if so is this going to continue when this
> becomes an official debian distribution?
> 
> Oh, and also what can I do about this?  Do I have to fetch gcc-3.4 to
> build kernel modules?  (Or rebuild my kernel with gcc-3.3)

apt-get install gcc-3.4 module-assistant

Then use module-assistant to build your modules.  It knows what to do
about the compiler.

For example:
m-a -t prepare
m-a -t a-i nvidia

Len Sorensen