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Bug 490120 - =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
Summary: =app-emulation/vmware-modules-271.2 with =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.11.6 - ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 483410
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal with 1 vote (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled]
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Reported: 2013-11-02 11:11 UTC by Krzysztof Magusiak
Modified: 2013-12-02 12:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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build.log (build.log,6.37 KB, text/x-log)
2013-11-02 11:12 UTC, Krzysztof Magusiak 		Details
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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 ***