when installing vmware-tools,

"The path "" is not valid path to the gcc binary" 

after confirming the installation gcc, input path / usr/bin/gcc

"The path "/usr/bin/gcc" is not valid path to the gcc binary" 

then simply no,
the result is not valid.

find the reason, find the vmware-tools-distrib/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl file:
find:

sub getValidGccPath {
  my $gcc_path = shift;
  my $modconfig = shift;
  my $appLoaderArgs = shift;
  my $answer;
  my $query;
  my $default;

  while (1) {
    if (system("$modconfig --validate-gcc \"$gcc_path\" $appLoaderArgs " .
           ">/dev/null 2>&1") == 0) {
      $query = "The path \"$gcc_path\" appears to be a valid path to the " .
           "gcc binary.";
      $default = 'no';
    } else {
      $query = "The path \"$gcc_path\" is not valid path to the gcc binary.";
      $default = 'yes';
      $gcc_path = '';
    }

    $answer = get_answer($query . "\n Would you like to change it?",
             'yesno', $default);
    if ($answer eq 'yes') {
      -sharp Get new path.
      $gcc_path = query('What is the location of the gcc program ' .
            'on your machine?', $gcc_path, 0);
    } else {
      last;
    }
  }
  return $gcc_path;
}

add the input path and directly return the value of gcc_path

  $gcc_path = query('What is the location of the gcc program ' .
            'on your machine?', $gcc_path, 0);
  return $gcc_path;

installation is complete, resolve