Tracker item #1983375, was opened at 2008-06-03 04:18 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by adembo You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1983375&group_id=204462
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: kernel modules Group: v1.0 (example) Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Craig Phillips (craig_phillips) Assigned to: Ghais Issa (gissa) Summary: configure: Cannot specify kernel constraints on command line Initial Comment: There are a few problems with the configure script. We need to be able to build these tools across a variety of platforms using our own build environment. However, there is no way to specify the environment to configure. e.g. in configure script: line 2195: getOsVersion() uses uname -r Assumes the running kernel is the kernel being built against. This is incorrect. The kernel built against is defined within our environment. expected flag to configure: --kernel-version=2.6.22 line 26547: MODULES_DIR Assumes again that the running kernel is the kernel being built against and also that the modules are located in the system modules directory rather than that specified on the command line: expected flag to configure: --kernel-modules-dir=/home/someuser/src/someenvironment/lib/modules ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Adar Dembo (adembo) Date: 2008-07-28 19:50 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1867590 Originator: NO Thanks for the follow-up. Ghais has been working on a patch to fix this new problem. I've attached it to this bug report. Apply it to your open-vm-tools tree and run "autoreconf --install" (make sure you have your distro's autoconf package and its dependencies installed) to rebuild the build system. After that, --with-kernel-release at configure time should work properly. File Added: configure.ac.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Giandomenico De Tullio (kheru) Date: 2008-07-28 02:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=760540 Originator: NO Even if configure was called with with-kernel-release option, modules has build from "uname -r" sourcetree. VM_UNAME variable in modules/linux/*/Makefile are "hardcoded" to: ./modules/linux/vmblock/Makefile:29:VM_UNAME = $(shell uname -r) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ECL (sopwith) Date: 2008-06-27 18:01 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18318 Originator: NO Should be fixed in the latest refresh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1983375&group_id=204462 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
