Tracker item #2797776, was opened at 2009-05-28 01:45
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Category: kernel modules
Group: v1.0 (example)
Status: Open
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Reindl Harald (reindl_harald)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: kernel-modules not longer building on fedora

Initial Comment:
Since april 2009 the open-vm-tools are not longer building on fedora 9 / fedora 
10 
Since a long time i use the following script to build the kernel-modules for 
distributing after that to all other machines and it would be fine to get this 
working again because kernel 2.6.29 landed in updates-testing today

[r...@buildserver:/scripts]$ cat /scripts/open-vm-tools/build.sh
#!/bin/bash

 tar -xzf open-vm-tools-*.gz
  cd open-vm-tools-*/modules/linux
  modsrc="/usr/lib/vmware-tools/modules/source"
  for x in `ls -d v*`
  do
     mv $x ${x}-only
     tar -cf $x.tar ${x}-only
     mv ${x}-only $x
     mv $modsrc/$x.tar $modsrc/$x.tar.orig
     mv $x.tar $modsrc
  done
  vmware-config-tools.pl

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Comment By: Denis Leroy (poolshark)
Date: 2009-05-28 04:39

Message:
You need to file a bug against the Fedora rpmfusion packager (i.e. myself),
not upstream.

For the record, I have an RPM of the latest open-vm-tools, but I'm seeing
massive regression (drag-n-drop not working, etc...). But i'm short on
time, patches are always welcome.


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Comment By: Reindl Harald (reindl_harald)
Date: 2009-05-28 03:35

Message:
Now i try to get compiled the kernel-modules and i would like to copy them
directly without install the other stuff
But it is not building - So give me please a working way to get the
kernel-modules built on recent fedora-versions or make the old way working
again

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
wiperPosix.c: In function 'Wiper_Init':
wiperPosix.c:1016: error: ignoring return value of 'fgets', declared with
attribute warn_unused_result
make[2]: *** [wiperPosix.lo] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/scripts/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2009.05.22-167859/lib/wiper'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/usr/local/scripts/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-2009.05.22-167859/lib'
make: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
#!/bin/bash

cd /scripts/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools*/
export CFLAGS="-O6 -march=native -mtune=native -fopenmp -pipe
-fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"
export CXXFLAGS="-O6 -march=native -mtune=native -fopenmp -pipe
-fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2"

./configure \
 --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \
 --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu \
 --without-procps \
 --without-gtkmm \
 --without-gtk2 \
 --disable-unity \
 --disable-docs && make



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Comment By: Reindl Harald (reindl_harald)
Date: 2009-05-28 02:24

Message:
> The module directories don't contain all needed files anymore

WHY?
You make unuseable this for non c-programmers in many cases or hurt them
Since many months this works very well on round 20 guest-machines and

On the referenced mailing-list i find no clear solution to get this
working as it did 
before april 2009. 

> you should probably get them from VMware's Tools distribution that goes
with the products

If this would be so easy there would be NO NEED for open-vm-tools because
you need them
for distributions with really new kernels as not official supported
fedora-guests

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2009-05-28 02:00

Message:
That won't work. The module directories don't contain all needed files
anymore - the shared files are reused from other locations. If you want the
tar packages you should probably get them from VMware's Tools distribution
that goes with the products, or try to adapt the instructions on the
following thread to create them from the open-vm-tools code:

https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200905181606.57759.olivier.lahaye%40cea.fr&forum_name=open-vm-tools-devel

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