Bug 8005

Summary:	vmware configure script uses wrong version flag for gcc 3.2
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Evan Teran <evan.teran>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Preston A. Elder (RETIRED) <prez>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Evan Teran 2002-09-16 17:49:56 UTC

anyway the "/opt/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl" script somewhere along the line
try's to figure out what version of gcc you have.  The only problem is that it
is using --version which spits out:

gcc (GCC) 3.2
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

on which it fails miserably at parsing.  instead it should be using -dumpversion
which spits out: 

3.2

which after messing with things late last night it did in fact parse correctly.
 I imagine this is an issue with the older gcc 2.95.x line having a --version
which gives a more sanly parsable string.

(BTW, same issue with compiling openoffice from source i think...i dont recall
if that got fixed in 1.0.1)

evan

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-12-16 12:12:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3415 ***