Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 05:09:22 PM Brian Reichert wrote:
> > Is anyone on this list familiar with anyone's effort to package the
> > open-source VMware tools for CentOS 5.8?  Or any non-too-bleeding-edge
> > Fedora Core distro?
> 
> CentOS 5.8 was announced on 3/7/2012.  I can't find any of these
> releases of open-vm-tools that will build out of the box; they all
> fail in the 'config' stage.
> 
> On a lark, I've tried building each of
> 
>   open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-8.6.5-621624
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-8.8.2-590212
>     configure: error: glib >= 2.6.0 is required.
>   open-vm-tools-9.0.0-782409
>     Kernels prior to 2.6.9 are not supported in this release of
> open-vm-tools.
> 
> I'm curious what distros these releases were tested on...

I do not think we tried CentOS 5.8 specifically, but the errors you have look 
as if you did not devel packages installed on the box you are trying to build.
For example CentOS 5 has glib2 package at 2.12 so if you install glib2-devel 
it should satisfy glib >= 2.6.0 requirement. Same goes for the kernel, RHEL5 
and CentOS 5 are are 2.6.18 + truckload of changes.

Thanks,
Dmitry