[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-3523224 ] open-vm-tools cannot compile against Glibc >2.14 and TI-RPC

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Tracker item #3523224, was opened at 2012-05-03 04:48
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Category: misc
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: nosebleedkt (nosebleedkt)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: open-vm-tools cannot compile against Glibc >2.14 and TI-RPC

Initial Comment:
Hello everybody !
Well my system is a linux-2.6.35.14 / gcc 4.7.0 / Glibc 2.14.1 / TI-RPC 0.2.2

Inside source tree I type: 
open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/# ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-x --without-dnet --without-icu --without-gtk2
Everything OK.

Then I type make. After a while I get multiple 'undefined reference to xdr...'
This is normal as open-vm-tools think that RPC implementation is still in Glibc project.
However, after Glibc >2.14 the RPC implementation has been removed and it is now in a another project called TI-RPC which resided on
http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/tirpc_rpcbind.php .

Me going  one level further, I run ./configure LIBS="-ltirpc" --prefix=/usr --without-x --without-dnet --without-icu --without-gtk2
Now, open-vm-tools know where to find the xdr references so things get a lot better. 
But still, 'make' exits with just one error: lib/include/vmxrpc.h:190: undefined reference to xdr_uint32_t.

So, I kindly ask the developers to make open-vm-tools compile against TI-RPC. 

Thanks :)

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>Comment By: nosebleedkt (nosebleedkt)
Date: 2012-05-03 05:11

Message:
In addition, running #strings /lib/libtirpc.so | grep xdr_u_int32_t 
returns me xdr_u_int32_t . That's weird.

And the complete error from 'make' is 

../lib/guestRpc/.libs/libGuestRpc.a(nicinfo_xdr.o): In function
`xdr_uint32':
/root/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/lib/include/vmxrpc.h:190: undefined
reference to `xdr_uint32_t'
/root/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/lib/include/vmxrpc.h:190: undefined
reference to `xdr_uint32_t'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [libvmtools.la] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/libvmtools'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1



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