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Bug 106753

Summary: vmware-workstation-5.0.0.13124-r2 fails on vmware-config.pl
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ray Tsang <rayt>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo VMWare Bug Squashers [disabled] <vmware+disabled>
Status: VERIFIED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Ray Tsang 2005-09-20 22:20:56 UTC
-- vmware-config.pl
VMware 2 or VMware Express detected, building for VMware 2, VMware Express and
VMware Workstation 4.0.x.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only'
Makefile:124: *** Inappropriate build environment: you wanted to use gcc version
 while kernel attempts to use gcc version 3.4.4.
Makefile:126: *** For proper build you'll have to replace /usr/bin/gcc with
symbolic link to .  Stop.
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config15/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.

-- vmware-config.pl w/ manually exported VM_CCVER="3.4.4"
VMware 2 or VMware Express detected, building for VMware 2, VMware Express and
VMware Workstation 4.0.x.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config16/vmmon-only'
make: *** No rule to make target `auto-build'.  Stop.
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config16/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge vmware-workstation
2.vmware-config.pl
3.

Actual Results:  
Failed before compilation

Expected Results:  
Should compile and load modules successfully

gcc 3.4.4-r1
make 3.80-r2
Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-21 03:48:11 UTC
Unless you have a patch, I'm going to refer you to VMWare for support on this,
since you're having an issue with their code, not mine.  My suggestion is to fix
your build environment.  It looks like you need to run gcc-config or something,
but without more information, I can't tell what you need to do.
Comment 2 Ray Tsang 2005-09-21 22:05:25 UTC
Neither do I know what happened.  I did not upgrade my kernel.  It worked fine
for months until a recent package updates.
Comment 3 Ray Tsang 2005-09-22 06:36:19 UTC
Doh!!  Just found out an environmental variable (VERSION) was set by something
else.  That threw off the make process.  Compilation went smoothly after
removing that variable. Ouch.