[NBLUG/talk] bogus gcc versioning with kernel modules?

[Mark Street]

I am havinging a time of it with some kernel modules for my PCtel modem.  I 
looked at configure and it does not have an option for setting the gcc 
version.  Should I look in the configure script for evidence of it setting 
gcc version and try to hack that?

[root at bonez pctel-0.9.6]# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man 
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix 
--disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit 
--host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

After a configure, make, make install, I get...

[root at bonez pctel-0.9.6]# modprobe + pctel
/lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9/misc/pctel.o: The module you are trying to load 
(/lib/modules/2.4.20-20.9/misc/pctel.o) is compiled with a gcc
version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with
a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work.

whaaaaaat!!!!

[root at bonez pctel-0.9.6]# ./configure --with-hal=i8xx
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking build driver for... HAL_I8XX
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
......

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