[Linux-disciples] Compiling nVidia drivers

[Stephen R Laniel]

Don't you guys love the flood of my comments today?

All right, here's another, since you asked. The relevant
page for nVidia drivers is here:
http://shorl.com/benulumubrafy

It actually features a nice curses-ish installer that goes
through some good checks. For some reason the installer
checks first for a 'precompiled kernel interface'; failing
that, it checks nVidia's FTP site for
the same thing; failing THAT, it looks in /usr/src to find
the Linux source code and tries to compile out of there.
That's the step I'm on.

It says that the source code features a GCC version
different from the one that compiled the kernel that I'm
running; the kernel I'm running was compiled against GCC
3.3, whereas the source is set to use 2.95. I tried doing

set CC=gcc-3.3

but that didn't work. What do I need to set to make this
work? Or what do I edit within the source to change the
compiler version?

I'm not exactly sure what the nVidia installer is doing, so
I'm flying rather blindly ...

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