Re: [IPCop-devel] Adding vm-tools package to IPCOP 1.4.21

[Eric S. <ej...@sh...>]

Eric Shubert wrote:
> Eric Shubert wrote:
>> Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: Davide
>>> To: ipc...@li...
>>> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:53 PM
>>> Subject: [IPCop-devel] Adding vm-tools package to IPCOP 1.4.21
>>>
>>>
>>>> make[3]: Entering directory
>>> `/usr/src/vm-tools-2008.09.03-114782/modules/linux/vsock'
>>>
>>> I am stopped before that stage.
>>> I add the call in make.sh after openvpn
>>> On the lfs file, I had to add --with-kernel-release=$(KVER) or configure
>>> stop very early
>>>
>>> Tested with 2008.09.03-114782 or 2008.10.10-123053 , it fail similary with
>>> make[3]: Entering directory
>>> `/usr/src/open-vm-tools-2008.09.03-114782/modules/linux/vmxnet'
>>> In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.36/build/include/asm/dma.h:14,
>>>                  from vmxnet.c:34:
>>> /lib/modules/2.4.36/build/include/linux/delay.h:62: error: parse error
>>> before "const"
>>> make[3]: *** [vmxnet.o] Error 1
>>>
>>> Gilles
>>>
>>> PS I have attached the lfs file I used
>>>
>> I too tried this with open-vm-tools-2009.02.18-148847. After installing 
>> pkg-config and glib2 for new dependencies, I get the same parse error as 
>> Gilles.
>>
>> Has anyone made any progress with this? I'm wondering if perhaps we need 
>> a compile flag of some sort.
>>
> 
> I've made some progress, and here's an update.
> 
> The recent open-vm-tools-2009.02.18-148847 added a dependency for glib2, 
> and pkg-config. I created Makefiles for them (attached) and added 
> lfsmake2 commands for them to the make.sh script at the end of the 
> buildbase function. They appear to have built without a problem.
> 
> Then I proceeded to try debugging the error that Gilles and I were 
> getting with vmxnet. I'm not sure what the problem with linux/delay.h 
> exactly was, but it doesn't appear to be necessary. I tried removing
> #include <asm/dma.h>
> from vmxnet.c, and the only complaint was the lack of the udelay 
> function, which is defined in <asm/delay.h>. It appears that asm/dma.h 
> was including linux/delay.h, which in turn included asm/delay.h. I 
> replaced <asm/dma.h> with <asm/delay.h>, and vmxnet.c compiled clean.
> 
> The next error was with vmhgfs. Makefile.normal had specified 
> hgfsEscapeLinux.o, while the program was really hgfsEscape.o (the 
> "Linux" part had apparently been dropped along the line). I modified 
> Makefile.normal, specifying hgfsEscape.o, and it compiled clean.
> 
> Now I'm up to (or back to?) Davide's original problem. I'm getting 
> exactly the same error as his original post. I don't see a quick fix for 
> that right now. I expect that I'll just omit this as it's not necessary 
> for IPCop.
> 
> Tomorrow I hope to move on to installing the pertinent pieces in a test 
> IPCop.
> 

Here are the attachments. (I hate it when I do that!)

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