On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:32:05AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > >On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:52:38 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > > >>I recently installed Debian 6.0.0 i386 Squeeze on a system with NVIDIA > >>graphics. When I went to build/ install the proprietary NVIDIA video > >>driver, it wanted gcc. So I installed the Debian gcc package. The > >>NVIDIA installer then informed me that the version of gcc installed on > >>my system (4.4) did not match the version used to compile the kernel > >>(4.3). So, I installed the Debian package gcc-4.3, set the CC > >>environment variable, and installed the NVIDIA driver. > >> > >> > >>Why does Debian have, and I presume use (?), two versions of gcc? > > > >Two versions? > > > >I'd say there are even more (3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5...) and > >I'm afraid this is not a Debian specific (other distributions > >should do the same way) :-) > > > >Different GCC versions may be needed to match different software > >compilation requirements. > > > > Right. I see it when I use 4.4 but the kernel-headers package needs > 4.3 because the kernel is compiled with that particular version, so > 4.3 is installed. I now have 4.4 and 4.5 installed.
I believe it's Debian Policy to always build the kernel with the current STABLE GCC. At the moment, that's 4.3. Unfortunately, my google-fu's failing me at the moment and I can't find a source for this factoid.
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