NVidia on Severn2 -> It works.
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sat Oct 4 03:31:29 UTC 2003
On Oct 3, 2003, Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 20:19, Chris Vanhoof wrote:
>> Different compilers were used. Let the Nvidia installer think the
>> kernel was compiled with gcc-3.2 ;
>>
>> # CC=gcc32 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run
> IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 sh NVIDIA...
> is the documented way of doing the same, just for completeness' sake.
Documented but wrong. It's not safe to use a different compiler to
build a module than the compiler used to build the kernel. Small
differences between the ABIs implemented by the compilers could render
the whole system unstable.
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