Tracker item #3371547, was opened at 2011-07-19 16:26
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: patches to allow vmtools to be built with uclibc/buildroot

Initial Comment:
With the attached patches, vmtools will be able to be built for uclibc. Tested 
successfully in a buildroot environment.


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>Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2011-07-22 13:34

Message:
Tried sending you a private email via sourceforge but it's erroring out. My
contact email is walla...@ccbilleuremovethis.com



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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2011-07-21 18:00

Message:
Hey, could you send me a private e-mail? Sourceforge doesn't seem to show
your user info.

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2011-07-21 17:42

Message:
Thanks. I'll ping our legal department since generally they haven't been
very good in processing those.

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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2011-07-21 11:20

Message:
Contributor agreement sent.

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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2011-07-21 11:05

Message:
I've substituted patch #4 with a much simpler version -- just moves
NO_FLOATING_POINT ifdef to exclude one function. The rest of the code that
was problematic can be stubbed out by compiling with NO_FLOATING_POINT. So
basically these patches just modify some ifdef's now. Will submit
contributor agreement.

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2011-07-20 17:08

Message:
For the libc bits, I don't think we can accept those into our repository,
unless you manage to get the copyright owner to sign off the copyright on
those bits to VMware (which I think is unlikely to happen...).

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Comment By: https://www.google.com/accounts ()
Date: 2011-07-20 08:08

Message:
Hi,

All patches except one are nothing more than adding an extra #if defined
so signing and returning the approval form isn't a problem. Patch number #4
is more problematic however since the code is lifted off libc. What's the
contribution policy on that?

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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin)
Date: 2011-07-19 17:30

Message:
Thanks for taking the time to do this, but we can't accept any patches
unless you follow the instructions at:
http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/contribute.php

Lots of this code is shared with our closed-sourced products, so we can't
just merge (L)GPL code into our code base without being able to change the
license.

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