After updating to gentoo-sources-2.6.33, vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r1 fails to compile. Output at the terminal is this - Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo/build SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-gentoo' make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/block.o In file included from /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/os.h:30, from /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/block.c:26: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/./include/driver-config.h:35:28: error: linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory In file included from /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/os.h:35, from /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/block.c:26: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:78: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’ include/linux/poll.h:70: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only/linux/block.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2/work/vmblock-only] Error 2 make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-gentoo' make: *** [vmblock.ko] Error 2 * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r2 failed: * Unable to emake HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= auto-build VMWARE_VER=VME_V65 KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.33-gentoo KBUILD_OUTPUT=/lib/modules/2.6.33-gentoo/build * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 54: Called src_compile * environment, line 3932: Called linux-mod_src_compile * environment, line 3020: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * eval "emake HOSTCC=\"$(tc-getBUILD_CC)\" CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS=\"$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)\" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS} " || die "Unable to emake HOSTCC="$(tc-getBUILD_CC)" CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS="$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)" ${BUILD_FIXES} ${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS}"; Reproducible: Always emerge --info: Portage 2.1.7.16 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9400_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.6.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.32 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests candy distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox webrsync-gpg" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LANG="he" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en he" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage /usr/local/alon-barlev-portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 arts berkdb bidi bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal hdaps iconv ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos ldap libnotify logrotate mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl semantic-desktop session smp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en he" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel vesa radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 221543 [details] Adding fail log.
My apologies ! I had a crappy patch misleading me. Re-tested using portage's vmware-modules-1.0.0.24-r1 works just fine ! Sorry, Doron.