This may be the answer to the issue. For me all I have to do is remove
open-vm-tools as my version of Linux has support for VMware tools built
in.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2015/09/open-vm-tools-ovt-the-future-
of-vmware-tools-for-linux.html
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I bumped into this as well, and can confirm that on my system I had
updated the default compiler to be gcc 4.8.5.
kevin@KBOX:~
$ /usr/bin/gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured
Ubuntu 16.04 comes with gcc >=5.3 by default.
The error suggests a gcc-4 (or even lower).
gcc versions 4.7-4.9 are available as extra packages.
I'd assume that these were installed and set up as default compiler?
@Ryosuke - is that (or something comparable) the case?
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** Summary changed:
- open-vm-tools-dkms 2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.1: open-vm-tools kernel
module failed to build
+ open-vm-tools-dkms 2:10.0.7-3227872-5ubuntu1~16.04.1: open-vm-tools kernel
module failed to build [gcc: error: unrecognized command line option
‘-fstack-protector-strong’]
