emerging open-vm-tools 20080414 (in the vmware overlay) fails on my boxen with: "error: dnet-config was not found on your PATH. Please configure without dnet (using --without-dnet) or install dnet". From the configure script: --without-procps compile without libproc (disables support for meminfo) --without-dnet compile without libdnet (disables support for nicinfo) It appears that the new configure script assumes you want procps and dnet support by default unless you pass --without-*. However, the ebuild does not explicitly depend on either of these libraries as prereqs. Once I emerged dev-libs/libdnet, everything was fine. It would probably be gentoo-esque to add a "dnet" USE flag to open-vm-tools that would toggle --with[out]-dnet and pull in libdnet as a dep if selected... or you could just always depend on libdnet and not change the configure command. Since procps was already installed on my system (mysql depends on it) I didn't see an error, but this should probably be addressed in the same manner as libdnet: make a new USE flag that adds --with[out]-procps or explicitly always pull in sys-process/procps as a dep.
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Thanks for spotting that Brandon. It's now fixed in the overlay, by forcing dependency on the two packages mentioned. This is firstly for time reasons, and secondly I don't really know what you lose if you disable those two options, and I wouldn't want to allow them in case they severely degrade service. Thanks again for catching that! 5:)
