Re: Would I be violating the GPL?

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:23:21PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Building for VMware Workstation 5.0.0.

Well I only looked at 4.5.2

> Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.13-AS20/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD 
> SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/hash.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/memtrack.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/phystrack.o
>   CC [M]  /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon-only/common/task.o
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for 
> Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
> cc1plus: warning: command line option 
> "-Werror-implicit-function-declaration" is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wdeclaration-after-statement" is 
> valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign" is valid for 
> C/ObjC but not for C++
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for 
> Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-ffreestanding" is valid for C/ObjC 
> but not for C++
> include/asm/bitops.h: In function ???int find_first_bit(const long unsigned 
> int*,
> unsigned int)???:
> include/asm/bitops.h:334: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned 
> integer expressions
> [...]

Whyever is anything calling cc1plus when the file appear to all be .c?

Len Sorensen