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From: Niek van der Maas <webmaster@××××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] VMWare and GCC 3.1
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 07:09:06
Message-Id: 200206051406.20620.webmaster@refstart.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] VMWare and GCC 3.1 by Prashanth Aditya Susarla
1 Hi,
2
3 There are several problems with binaries compiled with gcc 2.95, like the
4 nVidia-drivers, StartOffice, OO, etc. You can solve these problems by
5 patching glibc. Look here:
6 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2002-02/msg00152.html for the patch.
7 More information can be found in this topic:
8 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3963
9
10 Bye,
11
12 Niek.
13
14 On Tuesday 04 June 2002 14:35, Prashanth Aditya Susarla wrote:
15 > VMWare's acting smart with gcc-3.1. Fire up vmware and this is what you
16 > get:-
17 > /opt/vmware/bin/vmware: relocation error: /opt/vmware/bin/vmware:
18 > undefined symbol: __udivdi3
19 >
20 > There's no known bug about vmware on bugs.gentoo.org (guess there was no
21 > reason to be until gcc-3.x). Looking at the error it's similar to what one
22 > got before the nvidia-glx workaround. So there could be some LD_PRELOADing
23 > to do to perhaps get vmware to work.
24 >
25 > Regards,
26 > Prashanth Aditya Susarla
27 >
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