Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2021, 14:03:26 CET schrieb The Wanderer: Thanks for the response.
Kali is more than 95 percent debian. However, I will try as you told, if it does not work, please allow me to ask again. Thanks and best regards Hans > On 2021-12-03 at 07:52, Hans wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > for kali-linux I need to build a kernel-module (it is the nvidia > > kernel module). > > Note that this is not Debian, so is not strictly on-topic for this > mailing list. However, at least at a glance it doesn't look like there's > anything distro-specific about the question. > > > Make module does not work, as it says, kernel is build with gcc-10 > > and installed is gcc-11. > > > > Setting IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH is set to 1 (which is default). > > > > How can I set the environment, to use the older gcc version once, > > without deinstalling gcc-11 or killing my whole system? > > The details will vary depending on the build system of the module, > including both the build tools used and the exact details of how this > particular codebase is configured to build. I haven't touched, or looked > at, the NVIDIA kernel module in long enough that I don't know the > specifics for that exact case. > > However, the short version that should work for most cases is: > > * Make sure that you actually have gcc-10 installed. > > * At build time, specify the C compiler as being GCC 10, rather than the > system default C compiler. (And possibly do the same for other > compilation tools - the C preprocessor, the C++ compiler, the linker, > the assembler, ...) > > In the type of build system that used to be most common - and might > still be, for all I know - this latter could be done by specifying > environment variables at the start of the build command line; for > example, 'CC=gcc-10 .\configure' or 'CC=gcc-10 make'. (Other tools can > be specified with variable names such as CPP, CXX, et cetera.) > > In some cases, however, you might have to use a more advanced method to > specify what compiler to use. In some cases - and the NVIDIA kernel > module might be one of them - the build system might be complicated > enough that you would need to pass special, domain-specific arguments to > the configure script or its equivalent; in order to find out what syntax > you'd need to use there, we'd need to examine the build system itself > and find out what its interfaces look like.
