vmware won't fire up

On Aug 14, 1:39pm, Mike Starke wrote:

> So, as root I run "vmware-config.pl". I've done it before, so I thought a quick run
> thru, and this fluke would flush itself out.
>
> I get to the first part where it complains about pre-built modules not
> able to work w/my kernel: No problem, it has always said that. So it asks whether I have
> a C compiler, i say yes, and then it spits out this message:
>
> Argument "gcc (GCC) 3" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
> line 1476, <STDIN> line 1.
>
> I run the rest of the way thru...all kinds of warnings when compiling the mod's.
> everything appears to go fine, but still no go.
>
> Any ideas? Or should I whip off a message to the vmware team?

What does "gcc -dumpversion" say?

I'm guessing that the version string output by the above command is
not in a form acceptable to vmware-config.pl.

Kevin