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Bug 490120

Summary: =app-emulation/vmware-modules-271.2 with =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11.6 - vmblock-only/linux/file.c:240:4: error: unknown field ‘readdir’ specified in initializer
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Krzysztof Magusiak <chrmag>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: chrmag, cybertec.systems, evan.teran, m.debruijne
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: build.log

Description Krzysztof Magusiak 2013-11-02 11:11:49 UTC
vmware-modules-271.2 does not compile, I have the kernel 3.11.6

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
See build.log
Comment 1 Krzysztof Magusiak 2013-11-02 11:12:09 UTC
Created attachment 362422 [details]
build.log
Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2013-11-03 23:33:35 UTC
@vmware: On open-vm-tools-kmod, we no longer build vmblock.ko for kernels 3.0.0 or greater.

See bug 487484.
Comment 3 Robert Malek 2013-11-26 07:50:31 UTC
=app-emulation/vmware-workstation-10.0.0.1295980 pull =app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0

build fails with the same behavior:

/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0/work/vmblock-only/linux/file.c:240:4: error: unknown field ‘readdir’ specified in initializer
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0/work/vmblock-only/linux/file.c:240:4: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0/work/vmblock-only/linux/file.c:240:4: warning: (near initialization for ‘RootFileOps.owner’) [enabled by default]
/usr/src/linux-3.12.1-gentoo/scripts/Makefile.build:308: recipe for target '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0/work/vmblock-only/linux/file.o' failed
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.0/work/vmblock-only/linux/file.o] Error 1
Comment 4 Robert Malek 2013-11-26 07:52:17 UTC
uname -a
Linux 3.12.1-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 25 09:05:56 CET 2013 x86_64
Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-12-02 12:26:11 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 483410 ***