[open-vm-tools-devel] Gentoo integration

[Elias P. <ma...@el...>]

Hi,

we're currently developing an open-vm-tools ebuild for inclusion into Gento=
o=20
Linux.
The development progress can be tracked here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D192377

Our current blockers are:
=2D it doesn't build without X (missing libXrandr and probably libXtst too)=
,=20
although --disable-x and --without-multimon was given as argument=20
to ./configure
=2D the xferlogs tool which is mentioned in the packaging guide isn't inclu=
ded=20
in the sources - what happened to this tool?
=2D the file 'guestlib.so' isn't built - couldn't figure out why yet..

If anybody knows how to solve some of this points we'd be glad!

We're also doing some additional patching, maybe some of this changes sound=
=20
useful to the upstream developers for changing/including them.
=2D disabling the toolbox when X is not used (I'd wish to do this using=20
a ./configure argument like --disable-toolbox)
=2D modification of the VmwareDnD path, as /tmp is rather stupid if the use=
r=20
uses scripts which clean up /tmp on startup or similar. We're using=20
now /var/tmp/vmware/dnd. Would be nice as ./configure argument=20
like --dnd-dir=3D/var/foobar.
=2D Gentoo specific initscript for the vmware-guestd (dummy replacement com=
ing=20
soon...)

Regards, Elias P.


=2D-=20
A really nice number:
"09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"