Re: CC version conflicts--kernel vs nvidia driver
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:51:49 +0300
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> I have nvidia's "proprietary" dirver 96.43.01 running well on my
> Debian Sid. There is a bug in the opengl which will show up, for
> example, rotating a piece in a jigsaw puzzle program, where areas
> near the cursor are incorrectly painted. Their driver is up to
> version .05 so I tried to install.
>
> Their .run complained about the gcc version. I noticed the
> kernel-compiled .ko's will show a 4.1.3. Now I compiled that kernel
> much more recently than that!! Going ahead with the current 4.3.2!!
> will produce and un-modprobable nvidia.ko. No --force option will
> avail.
>
> Their instructions say set a CC environment variable. Anything I try
> will then produce a complain that this "compiler" cannot produce
> execs. I tried 4.1.3, gcc4.1.3, gcc-4.1.3 and such variations of the
> current version to no avail.
>
> Since the kernel compile chose this older version, recompiling clean
> will probably not help. What do I do to kludge this (I have sometimes
> succeeded in editing vermagic stuff if the result had exactly the
> same length but the gcc is not in this string.)
>
The following helped me:
# cd /usr/bin
# rm gcc
# ln -s gcc-4.1 gcc
After compiling the kernel module, you can redo the steps above with
gcc-4.3, or you can leave it this way.
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