Bug 193988

Summary:	Latest upgrades of kernel and gcc don't match.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nicola <ivololeribar>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	5	CC:	managed, pfrields, wtogami
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Description Nicola 2006-06-03 23:18:10 UTC

Description of problem:
Latest upgrade of FC5 of kernel and gcc don't match. Kernel is compiled with 
gcc 4.1.0, while current version of gcc is 4.1.1. Thus compiling external
modules is impossible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 gcc 4.1.1, kernel 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to latest kernel
2. Upgrade to latest gcc
3. Current gcc has larger version that the one used for compiling 
current kernel
  
Actual results:
It's impossible to compile external modules like the one
required from vmware.

Expected results:
To be able to use current gcc with current kernel.

Additional info:
This is not the first time it happens. Please make sure current gcc and kernel
match.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2006-06-05 06:32:59 UTC

*** Bug 194028 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2006-06-05 06:36:27 UTC

That's kernel (or module utils) bug, it should never rely on the GCC patchlevel
version when doing matching compiler checks.  GCCs with different patchlevel
version, but the same major/minor version are compatible.

I don't remember anything like this being reported in the past where we changed
GCC patchlevel version many times during upgrades, so it must be a new
regression.

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2006-09-11 00:41:04 UTC

It doesn't. modinfo on any module will show the vermagic as "gcc-4.1".
It shouldn't make any difference at all what patchlevel gcc is used.