Ian Wienand wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:38:15PM +1100, david wrote:
When I run vmware-config.pl I get the following warning message:
Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.2.3", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.2.4".
What version am I running? Should I care? vmware-config.pl gives dire
warnings about impending crashes, although I've found two posts on the
net suggesting that I can bypass the warning.
It's warning you because different versions of gcc *might* do things
like layout structures differently, meaning the newly built modules
*might* get a wrong offset and end-up poking around where they're not
supposed to (i.e. ABI compatability).
The results could be from nothing at all to all hell breaking loose.
However, for a minor version bump like this it is very unlikely
anything like that changed in gcc, so you should be fine.
You turned out to be right. So far nothing has gone wrong. If things go down
hill I'll post again :-)
I'm naive enough to think that computing should be an exact science.
If you want to be really sure, re-compile your kernel with the gcc on
your system now.
-i
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