Re: source for open-vm-tools 8.3.17?

[Brian R. <rei...@nu...>]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:40:39PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 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.

The 'glib2-devel' clue was most helpful; 'configure' now completes,
and a build is churning.  For now. :)

> Thanks,
> Dmitry

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Brian Reichert				<rei...@nu...>
BSD admin/developer at large