Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't recompile vmware modules

[Ronan Klyne]

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Sorry - that was unclear. Portage had installed new kernel sources, and
I hadn't built a kernel from them. I initially thought that I could use
the existing kernel, but the vmware-config script would hang.

I use GCC 3.4.6-r1, make 3.80, perl 5.8.8.

I found problems with the dynamic linker in binutils-2.16.1-r4 (I
believe released recently) - it prevented wget and libpcre from
building, and probably screwed up other stuff too. masking this version
sorted it.

	# r

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 11:42 +0100, Ronan Klyne wrote:
>> I found that I had to build a new kernel with whatever sources were
>> there before running vmware-config. I now have it working with
>> gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4...
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't understand the phrase "with whatever sources were
> there before running vmware-config[.pl]". Are you simply saying that you
> had to rebuild your kernel when you installed a new version of
> gentoo-sources? (AFAIK, there is no automatic way of installing a new
> version of gentoo-sources and automatically building and installing it.)
>
> Regardless, I build a new kernel, reboot and then try to run
> vmware-config.pl. I've been able to do this for about a year through a
> dozen or so new versions of gentoo-sources, but a few weeks ago it
> stopped working.
>
> What versions of GCC, perl and make are you using?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --- Vladimir
>
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