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

[ME]

Is RedHat still doing that gcc vs kgcc thing?

If so, it is possible that kgcc is a diff version than gcc, and if the
modules are being built without being explititly told to use "kgcc"
instead of defaulting to use "gcc" then the version differences could be
causing problems.

HTH,
-ME

Mark Street said:
> 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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