nvidia and severn2 -- an alternative

[Robert L Cochran]

gcc32 is installed if you select the kernel development group of packages.

Bob


John Alexander Thacker wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:27:34PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> 
>>]# make install
>>cd usr/src/nv; make install
>>make[1]: Entering directory 
>>`/home/abe/INSTALL/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv'
>>                                                            
>>You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with
>>a compiler different from the one that was used to compile
>>the running kernel. This may be perfectly fine, but there
>>are cases where this can lead to unexpected behaviour and
>>system crashes.
>>                                                            
>>If you know what you are doing and want to override this
>>check, you can do so by setting IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH.
>>                                                            
>>In any other case, set the CC environment variable to the
>>name of the compiler that was used to compile the kernel.
>>                                                            
>>With this kernel, it will NOT accept eport gcc=Gcc32, but only
>>"export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1".
> 
> 
> First off, the line should be
> "export GCC=gcc32"
> 
> Capitalization is important.
> Secondly, you need to make sure that the gcc32 package is installed
> for "export GCC=gcc32" to work.  Fedora Core doesn't install it by
> default, or at least doesn't add it to upgrades by default.  Of course,
> gcc32 also needs to be in your PATH, but that shouldn't be a problem
> since it lands in /usr/bin anyway.
> 
> I'm certain that "export GCC=gcc32" works perfectly on default Fedora
> Core with the NVIDIA drivers.  I've done it.
> 
> John Thacker
> 
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