After getting everything built, I was amazed to see how large open-vm-tools
has grown. When I last built it, in '08, guestd was ~500K. Now, with
all the library dependencies, plug-in modules, and general growth,
open-vm-tools is larger than the combined size of the small Linux OS I was
building it for.
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> After getting nowhere with the latest stable version (as stated on the
> sourceforge site, 8.4.2-261024), I grabbed a different build from the site.
> I got the one dated 2010.11.17. That version got much further in the
> build process, and eventually failed when making vmsync because of a missing
> file "Makefile.normal".
>
> After more experimentation, I finally was able to get past this by creating
> links to my kernel source/headers in /usr/src and /usr/lib.
>
> Some basic documentation about system requirements, dependencies, and
> assumptions about directory locations would go a long way toward making this
> much easier. As it is now, the docs are not very helpful.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Tom Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I am trying to build open-vm-tools, and running into a problem with where
>> it's looking for header files. I am building it on a different system than
>> it will run on (the virtual machine doesn't have dev tools, so I'm building
>> it on a different machine. I am using --with-linuxdir to point it to the
>> correct kernel source. I'm also setting --with-kernel-release, --build, and
>> --host.
>>
>> But, when I try to make it, I get an error:
>> ---
>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/home/tjh/Build/Linux2/Test/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/modules'
>> make VM_UNAME=2.6.34.6 MV=mv RM=rm \
>>
>> OVT_SOURCE_DIR=/home/tjh/Build/Linux2/Test/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024 \
>> -C "../modules/linux/vmmemctl"
>> Using standalone build system.
>> In file included from
>> /home/tjh/Build/Linux2/Test/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/modules/linux/shared/autoconf/geninclude.c:20:
>> /home/tjh/Build/Linux2/Test/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/modules/linux/shared/compat_autoconf.h:38:
>> fatal error: generated/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
>> compilation terminated.
>> ---
>>
>> It doesn't appear to be looking for the header files in the Linuxdir that
>> I configured it with. Is there another setting needed to point it to the
>> correct kernel source tree?
>>
>
>
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