When trying to run vmware console on a Gentoo 2006.0 install using GCC3.4 and Cairo it fails with
/usr/lib/vmware-console/bin/vmware-console: /usr/lib/vmware-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

The solution is to either symlink or copy the libgcc_s.so.1 from your system (probably in /lib) to the /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/ and overwrite the existing file.

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