vmware-config.pl fails to build new module with latest 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 kernel
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Thu Mar 15 02:59:16 UTC 2007
dkms detected the new kernel and built my nvidia module while rebooting into
the new kernel
when I tried to build the new vmware module, I got the following:
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Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD
SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686'
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
In file included from /tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80:
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected
declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘compat_exit’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected
declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘exit_code’
/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type
defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘_syscall1’
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config0/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"
and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
Execution aborted.
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To my untrained eye, it looks like errors in the vmware script "expected
declaration specifiers...." but I've been using this same script to build new
modules for the past several months. Does anyone spot anything that could be
causing this?
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Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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