My bad. the install.pl, IIRC, suggests unpacking vmnet-only.tar and/or vmmon-only.tar and making the modules by hand if it can't autobuild them. You'll get vmnet-only/Makefile and vmmon-only/Makefile. Again, IIRC. My vmware box is currently in M$ mode so I can play a game. :>
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I just looked in vmware-distrib and there ISN'T any Makefile (?). It > looks like install.pl handles it (somehow, it's beyond my grasp of > perl). > > Bob > > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:00:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > What I've done is put my kernel source's include path in the vmware > > Makefile's include path (FI -I/usr/src/linux-2.3.6/include) and it has > > worked fine for me. > > > > I've also compiled the modules (and my kernel) with egcs (I'm running > > Slink - have had troubles upgrading to Potato; wanted to see what USB > > stuff breaks, if any) and -mpentium, and only have framebuffer conflicts > > so far. > > > > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:24:55AM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > > > > I tried to install vmware over the weekend and it wanted to compile a > > > > kernel module for my 2.2.10 kernel. It complained because my linux > > > > kernel header version was still 2.2.9. I looked and sure enough, > > > > /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm were both real directories with > > > > real files. > > > > > > > > Aren't these typically supposed to be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/...? > > > > > > > > Also, how did the headers there get up to 2.2.9? I haven't done > > > > anything fancy to copy headers into those directories, and I've been > > > > downloading kernel patches from www.linuxhq.com etc, not the Debian > > > > packages. Does the normal kernel build usually install these? I wonder > > > > why it didn't for 2.2.10? > > > > > > In Debian, the headers in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are > > > not symlinks to the kernel source, but are supplied by libc6-dev. As > > > this is periodically upgraded, they may be based on newer kernels--the > > > current potato version comes from 2.2.9. > > > > > > What I did to compile the vmware modules is to mv /usr/lib/linux to some > > > other location and replace it with a symlink to the headers in my 2.2.10 > > > kernel source. You can probably use symlinks all the time, but you > > > should read /usr/doc/libc6-dev/FAQ.Debian.gz to understand the rationale > > > as to why the headers are packaged this way. > > > > > > Bob > > > > > > -- > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > -- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen >
