Bug 408722

Summary:	vmware workstation gcc <-> kernel version conflict
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Thomas Rother <t.rother>
Component:	Development	Assignee:	Philipp Thomas <pth>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	vmware workstation 6, config script

Description Thomas Rother 2008-07-13 14:05:22 UTC

After upgrade 10.3 to 11.0 the external vmware kernel modules need to be re-compiled. The vmware-config.pl script complains about the kernel being compiled with gcc 4.3.1. /usr/bin/gcc is needed for vmware compilation, it links to gcc-43. gcc-4.3 --version identifies it as 4.3.1 pre-release, same info is in the rpm package. But still, somehow the vmware script, complains about a version conflict.

Comment 1 Thomas Rother 2008-07-13 14:10:45 UTC

Created attachment 227466 [details]
vmware workstation 6, config script

Script complains version conflict around line 3054

Comment 2 Philipp Thomas 2008-07-14 11:35:49 UTC

Please report problems with vmware-config.pl to VMware. All packages in a distribution are built with the same compiler. If the script can't properly detect that, it's Vmware's job to fix it.

Comment 3 Thomas Rother 2008-07-14 19:05:19 UTC

You are right, but only partly. The same script did work fine in 10.2. and 10.3. Now it fails, which is a regression for me.

Comment 4 Philipp Thomas 2008-07-15 10:31:47 UTC

It's still a regression in vmware's script to not detect the version correctly.

Comment 5 Philipp Thomas 2008-07-16 10:37:45 UTC

Reopen to resolve as duplicate.

Comment 6 Philipp Thomas 2008-07-16 10:39:22 UTC

Bug 391432 has an explanation why and where vmware-config-tool.pl fails.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 391432 ***