Tracker item #1960947, was opened at 2008-05-09 04:09 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by poolshark You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1960947&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: misc Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Johnny Hughes (hughesjr) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: procps-devel and proc/sysinfo.h Initial Comment: The procps package in several linux distributions does not contain the header file (proc/sysinfo.h) by default. (CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, and opensuse do not contain that header file by default ... it seems it is only in Debian by default) The upstream "make install" also does not install that header. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Denis Leroy (poolshark) Date: 2008-09-05 03:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=95186 Originator: NO Any updates on this ? It's important to understand that right now, the configure script will fail by default on EVERY linux distribution but Debian. The use of procps should be turned on explicitly by an option rather than the other way round. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Denis Leroy (poolshark) Date: 2008-05-12 23:15 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=95186 Originator: NO Ugh, I'd get flamed to a crisp if I did this in Fedora :-) It would also be hard to convince the Fedora/RHEL maintainer to export the header files, since this is a deviation from upstream. I would recommend the solution I used for my dkms packages at http://www.poolshark.org/dkms-open-vm-tools/dkms-open-vm-tools-0-1.2008.04.14.fc8.src.rpm This one has a patch that add the few prototypes needed to compile the code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Johnny Hughes (hughesjr) Date: 2008-05-12 14:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1166174 Originator: YES Well ... I cheated :D I just extracted the CentOS-5 procps source and tared up the /proc header files and added them as a Source to my open-vm-tools SRPM, then I untared them into open-vm-tools BUILD root (in lib/include/proc modified the path in the configure file to look in the new place. That is not a very good option, but it was the fastest/easiest. I will have to track the source manually and modify the headers if required. The other option is to create a proper -devel file for procps .. which I would do if CentOS was not a rebuild of RHEL sources. Since it is, I am kind of stuck with their procps RPM as defined. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: ECL (sopwith) Date: 2008-05-12 12:17 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18318 Originator: NO Hey Johnny, do you have any suggestions for viable solutions? I think we were looking at trying to remove the dependency on libprocps, but what other options are there from your perspective? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dmitriy (bryndin) Date: 2008-05-09 11:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1494464 Originator: NO In Mandriva case, /usr/include/procps is created instead of /usr/include/proc. creating a soft link solves the problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=1960947&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
