Linux 2.6.35 is supposed to come out later this week. Not having vmware-modules build under it will be a problem when that happens. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install =sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.35_rc6 2. eselect the new kernel 3. Compile =app-emulation/vmware-modules-238 Actual Results: It fails to build. Expected Results: It should build. # emerge --info =app-emulation/vmware-modules-238 Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35-rc6 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-rc6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:45:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.5, 4.4.4-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -mcx16 -msahf -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -O2 -pipe" 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/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -mcx16 -msahf -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -mcx16 -msahf -msse4.1 --param l1-cache-size=32 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=6144 -O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" 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="/var/lib/layman/java-overlay /var/lib/layman/vmware /var/lib/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify lzma mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="snd-ctxfi" 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 cgi cgid 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="*" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-emulation/vmware-modules-238 was built with the following: USE="(multilib)" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--sort-common"
Thanks for the report. For future reference, please mention when an ebuild comes from an overlay rather than the official tree.
Created attachment 241035 [details, diff] Noel's patch for this bug Attached is Noel's patch for this bug, from http://communities.vmware.com/thread/272625 Works for me on 2.6.35_rc6 (git).
(In reply to comment #2) The patch works with gentoo-sources-2.6.35 I have ~x86 Thanks for the patch!
patch is in the vmware overlay. Thanks.