On Wednesday 23 October 2002 06:17, Goupil, Regis wrote: > Hi all, > > In RedHat 8.0, drivers compiled with an old library, old meaning compiled The message is not about the library, it's about the compiler. > under RedHat earlier releases, failed to load with the following message: > "xx.o: The module you are trying to load (xx.o) is compiled with a gcc > version 2 compiler, while the kernel you are running is compiled with > a gcc version 3 compiler. This is known to not work." > > Beside the fact that the message is rather misleading, both module and > kernel are actually compiled with GCC 3.0 but the module's associated > library is not, I need to find the reasons why this doesn't work. > I went to RedHat and GNU websites and found nothing about that. Is there any > technical documentation somewhere that I can get access to about these > incompatibilities ? The kernel and its modules do not use any runtime library. It's entirely self-contained. Don't mix compiler versions though, compile _all_ the kernel with the same compiler. -- Cheers John. Please, no off-list mail. You will fall foul of my spam treatment. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
