After a recent update of the kernel to 2.6.24 I fail in building the
kernel modules for vmware workstation. I'm using 'make-vmpkg'. It
fails with the following:

In file included from
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/linux/os.h:21,
from
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/linux/block.c:12:
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:60:
error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’
was here

I suspect it's caused by an earlier warning:

In file included from
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/linux/os.h:21,
from
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/linux/block.c:12:
/home/root_extra/vmware/vmware-workstation/build/vmware-workstation/usr_src/modules/vmware-kernel/vmblock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:37:5:
warning: "VMW_HAVE_EPOLL" is not defined

Any ideas on how to solve this? (I suspect one way might be to somehow
make sure that VMW_HAVE_EPOLL is defined during the compilation, but how
do I succeed in doing that?)

/M

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Peter Velichkov wrote:
> Just wrote a how-to about installing vmware player/workstation on debian
> unstable with default kernel 2.6.24
> http://blog.creonfx.com/linux/how-to-install-vmware-player-workstation-on-2624-kernel

I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p
any-any -s -u 116 <path to file>' succeeded and I ended up with a
package named vmware-any-any-kernel-source containing the source.
However, when building the source with 'm-a a-i
vmware-any-any-kernel-source' failed with:

gcc-4.1: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

How do I get past this?

/M

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On 2008-02-02 19:34 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p
> any-any -s -u 116 <path to file>' succeeded and I ended up with a
> package named vmware-any-any-kernel-source containing the source.
> However, when building the source with 'm-a a-i
> vmware-any-any-kernel-source' failed with:
>
> gcc-4.1: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory

Apparently the C++ compiler for gcc-4.1 is missing.

> How do I get past this?

Install the g++-4.1 package and retry.

Sven


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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-02-02 19:34 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> I didn't succeed with the vmware-any-any package. 'make-vmpkg -p
>> any-any -s -u 116 <path to file>' succeeded and I ended up with a
>> package named vmware-any-any-kernel-source containing the source.
>> However, when building the source with 'm-a a-i
>> vmware-any-any-kernel-source' failed with:
>>
>> gcc-4.1: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
>
> Apparently the C++ compiler for gcc-4.1 is missing.
>
>> How do I get past this?
>
> Install the g++-4.1 package and retry.

Reading this I just realised that I wasn't paying attention to version
numbers at all. I added /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2 to $PATH and
re-ran m-a, which seems to have worked fine.

/M

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