On 2010-07-18 21:02 +0200, Greg Madden wrote: > Thanks, what I don't understand though is why when gcc is installed it does a > symlink to gcc-4.4, on Squeeze.
Because gcc-4.4 is the default compiler, but the kernel has been compiled with gcc-4.3 (mainly to avoid regressions that may show up when building the kernel with the newer compiler). That the kernel folks are rather insane and insist on building third-party modules with the same GCC version as the kernel is another problem (consider what would happen if libraries were handled that way). > It could be an issue with using non-Debian > sources as they do fail because they look at 'usr/bin/gcc' and whatever it is > liked to. They should look at the CC environment variable first. I don't quite know if/how Debian's linux-kbuild infrastructure takes care of setting that, but there is a file /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-$flavour/.kernelvariables in the linux-headers-2.6.32-5-$flavour package that seems to set CC. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87iq4ck1jh....@turtle.gmx.de
