vmware-config.pl fails to build new module with latest 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 kernel

[Yuandan Zhang]

Yes, It happened. I use any-any-update configured it, WORKING.
http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update108.tar.gz



On 15/03/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> *******************************
>
> 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.
>
> *************************************
> 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?
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD, USA
>
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