[OT] What is it with VMWare and -m486?

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Sorry for posting this question here, but VMWare still doesn't support
RHL 8.0

I downloaded VMware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.i386.rpm from VMWare site,
installed it and when running "vmware-config.pl" it obviously told me
that there are no precompiled modules for my running system and that it
was going to do some.

What really gets my attention, is that when it is compiling the modules,
I get these warnings from gcc:

make[2]: Entering directory
`/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.18-18.8.0'
`-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.
cc1: warning: -malign-loops is obsolete, use -falign-loops
cc1: warning: -malign-jumps is obsolete, use -falign-jumps
cc1: warning: -malign-functions is obsolete, use -falign-functions
`-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.
cc1: warning: -malign-loops is obsolete, use -falign-loops
cc1: warning: -malign-jumps is obsolete, use -falign-jumps
cc1: warning: -malign-functions is obsolete, use -falign-functions
`-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.

[...]

Anyway, it compiles and runs "fine", but I don't know why does it insist
in using -m486, even if I do have a i686 kernel:

[root@imoqland root]# uname -a
Linux imoqland.blabla.mx 2.4.18-18.8.0 #1 Thu Nov 14 00:10:29 EST 2002
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

And in a side note, it really runs SLOWLY in a PIV 1.4 GHz, with win98.
I remember that I installed VMWare (don't know which version) in a PIII
800 MHz a year ago or so, with Windows XP on it. It used to run very
fine! I am thinking that probably those "optimizations" for 486 are
doing something tricky to my system.

Oh, and yes, I do load the libnice.so before running VMWare.

Thank you for your comments :)

Alex.

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