[ILUG] VMWare on Red Hat 8

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Hello,

> `-m486' is deprecated. Use `-march=i486' or `-mcpu=i486' instead.
> cc1: warning: -malign-loops is obsolete, use -falign-loops
> cc1: warning: -malign-functions is obsolete, use -falign-functions

These are unfortunately related to the fact that VMware still supports
GCC 2.9x and they didn't provide proper modules support for GCC 3.x.
Still, i have been running a Mandrake 8.2 with GCC 3.2 since without a
single problem and VMware 3.1.1 is running on my box without issues.

> Having yet to dip my toe in the water of programming for Linux, I'd 
> appreciate any assistance as to what the above messages might mean. 
> Would downgrading my gcc or glibc libraries help, or would that just 
> cause problems in other areas?

Problem with VMware is that they provide limited sources and they keep
all their internal stuff closed-source, it makes it difficult to change
anything but that is definitly related to GCC deprecations. 

Our friend google tells you more right here : 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=6ab4de8d.0210041235.63b2857%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dredhat%2B8%2Bvmware%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D6ab4de8d.0210041235.63b2857%2540posting.google.com%26rnum%3D1

Steph
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