Re: crosstool help with debian 2.6.8-10 em64t

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Jason Eacott wrote:
> I am trying to install vmware 5 on a debian/intel em64 machine running debian kernel 2.6.8-10-
> em64t-p4-smp
> It doesn't seem that anyone else has done this yet.
>
> I cant install vmware because it cant compile its module:
> ----------
> Building the vmmon module. 
>
> Using 2.6.x kernel build system. 
> make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' 
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8-10-em64t-p4-smp/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD 
> SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-10-em64t-p4-smp' 
> CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o 
> /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:1: error: code model 'kernel' not supported in the 
> 32 bit mode ...
> ----------------
>
> after a bit of hunting the problem seems to be that I don't have a suitable 64bit compiler to build 
> the module.

Yeah, that's how it look to me after a  bit of hunting, too --
but it's hard to believe.  Which version of Debian are
you running?  Is it the x86_64 version?  In that case,
it's pure 64 bits!  Or are you running the normal, 32 bit
version of Debian?

> and shortly after that I found your scripts.
>
> I have tried quite a few combinations of settings with varying degrees of success, but none that 
> complete.
>
> checking size of long double...configure: cannot compute sizeof (long double), 77

You did not include enough context for me to figure out what you did.
What version of crosstool?  The latest is crosstool-0.38, please use that.
What version of gcc and glibc?
You're probably trying to build too old a version of gcc.
The earliest version likely to work for x86_64 is gcc-3.3.x (e.g. gcc-3.3.6).
See the bottom row of http://kegel.com/crosstool/current/buildlogs/
to see which combinations work for x86_64.
- Dan

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