[gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

[gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:

        Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
        Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
        make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
        Makefile:127: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to
        use gcc version  while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.1.
        Makefile:129: *** For proper build you'll have to
        replace /usr/bin/gcc with symbolic link to .  Stop.
        make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
        Unable to build the vmmon module.

When I explicitly set the GCC version and then run vmware-config.pl with
VM_CCVER="4.1.1" vmware-config.pl, I successfully pass the GCC version
test, but then make can't find the target auto-build:

        Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
        Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
        make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
        make: *** No rule to make target `auto-build'.  Stop.
        make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only'
        Unable to build the vmmon module.

Of course the target is there:

        fgrep auto-build: /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/Makefile
        auto-build: $(DRIVER_KO)

Falling back to an older version of gentoo-sources doesn't help. "make",
"perl", binutils and coreutils all seem OK.

Has anyone else run into this kind of problem, and if so, how did you
solve it?

Thanks.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Can't recompile vmware modules

[David Talkington]

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Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:

> When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
...
> Has anyone else run into this kind of problem, and if so, how did you
> solve it?

Make sure you're using the latest build of VMware Workstation. 
Assuming that to be true, then this might help -- it solved a similar 
build problem for me:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0

Cheers -d

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't recompile vmware modules

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 11:20 -0700, David Talkington wrote:
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> Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> 
> > When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
> ...
> > Has anyone else run into this kind of problem, and if so, how did you
> > solve it?
> 
> Make sure you're using the latest build of VMware Workstation. 
> Assuming that to be true, then this might help -- it solved a similar 
> build problem for me:
> 
> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=76957&tstart=0
> 

I am using the  latest version of VMware (5.5.1.19175) with the latest
update (101) applied.

BTW, I didn't mention that VMware workstation used to work with some
kernel version (later than 2.6.16), with gcc 4.1.1 and with some version
of binutils, coreutils, etc. Like an idiot, I didn't save the working
setup after I installed a new kernel, so I can't go back to a known,
working version.

--- Vladimir 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

[Richard Fish]

On 7/22/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote:
> When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
>
>         Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
>         Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
>         make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
>         Makefile:127: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to
>         use gcc version  while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.1.

What is the output of:

1. cat /proc/version
2. gcc -v
3. gcc-config -l

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

[Vladimir G. Ivanovic]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 22:39 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 7/22/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote:
> > When I run vmware-config.pl, I get the following error:
> >
> >         Building for VMware Workstation 5.5.x.
> >         Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
> >         make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
> >         Makefile:127: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to
> >         use gcc version  while kernel attempts to use gcc version 4.1.1.
> 
> What is the output of:
> 
> 1. cat /proc/version
> 2. gcc -v
> 3. gcc-config -l

To me everything looks OK, but I'd love another set of eyes to look at
my setup.

--- Vladimir

        $ cat /proc/version
        Linux version 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 (root@scarlatti) (gcc version
        4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)) #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 22 15:13:47 PDT 2006
        $ gcc -v
        Using built-in specs.
        Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
        Configured
        with: /var/tmp/portage/gcc-4.1.1/work/gcc-4.1.1/configure
        --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.1
        --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/include
        --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1
        --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/man
        --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/info
        --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-multilib --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-languages=c,c++,java,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
        Thread model: posix
        gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)
        $ gcc-config -l
        Available compilers for CTARGET i686-pc-linux-gnu
          [1]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/x86-hardened
          [2]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/x86-hardenednopie
          [3]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/x86-hardenednopiessp
          [4]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/x86-hardenednossp
          [5]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/x86-vanilla
          [6]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1/x86-vanilla
        Available compilers for CTARGET x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
          [7]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/amd64-hardened
          [8]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/amd64-hardenednopie
          [9]   x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/amd64-hardenednopiessp
          [10]  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/amd64-hardenednossp
          [11]  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6/amd64-vanilla
          [12]  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla
        
        Activated profiles:
          i686-pc-linux-gnu
        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1/x86-vanilla
          x86_64-pc-linux-gnu *
        x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla

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Re: [gentoo-user] Can't recompile vmware modules

[Richard Fish]

On 7/24/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@comcast.net> wrote:
> > What is the output of:
> >
> > 1. cat /proc/version
> > 2. gcc -v
> > 3. gcc-config -l
>
> To me everything looks OK, but I'd love another set of eyes to look at
> my setup.

Yeah, it looks sane to me too.

The only thing I can think of is a problem in perl.  The
vmware-config.pl script passes some variables into the Makefile, and
it looks like maybe some of those are not being set correctly.

Which version of perl are you using (I have 5.8.8-r2 here)?  Have you
run perl-cleaner recently?

-Richard
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