open-vm-tools-devel

WIKI documentation for building from git

[Zachary D. <zac...@gm...>]

Hello,

I'm trying to build open-vm-tools from git on Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm getting
stuck at the autotools step. Could someone post a brief 'how to build
starting from git' guide to the wiki? I tried following Adar Dembo's
suggestion from his 2008.10.13 tar ball announcement:

These files can be rebuilt by anyone with the autoconf/libtool/automake
> packages installed locally and as such, probably shouldn't be tracked by
> source control.
>

But that failed immediately:

zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ autoconf
configure.ac:176: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:209: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
configure.ac:218: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:932: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ libtool
libtool: error: you must specify a MODE.
zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ automake
configure.ac:66: required directory ./config does not exist
<followed by another hundred errors>

Are there missing steps and/or arguments?

Thanks!

Zach


P.S. If you're curious, I'm interested in the recent XVideo bug fixes.

RE: WIKI documentation for building from git

[Adar D. <ad...@vm...>]

> zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ autoconf
> configure.ac:176: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
> m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:209: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
> configure.ac:218: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:932: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ libtool
> libtool: error: you must specify a MODE.
> zdrew@zdrew-ubuntu-32bit-vm:~/vmware/open-vm-tools$ automake
> configure.ac:66: required directory ./config does not exist
> <followed by another hundred errors>
> 
> Are there missing steps and/or arguments?

Try "autoreconf -I" (or --install). autoreconf will invoke the appropriate steps along the way, including automake, autoconf, aclocal, etc. You may need to create an empty 'm4' subdirectory first.

> P.S. If you're curious, I'm interested in the recent XVideo bug fixes.

Sounds good, except the xorg video drivers aren't part of the open-vm-tools; they're part of the upstream xorg repository. The vmmouse driver had some issues in 8.10 that have seen been corrected; you can get an updated vmmouse package through the latest Intrepid updates.

Re: WIKI documentation for building from git

[Marcelo V. <mv...@vm...>]

Hi Zach,

Zachary Drew wrote:
> I'm trying to build open-vm-tools from git on Ubuntu 8.10 and I'm getting
> stuck at the autotools step. Could someone post a brief 'how to build
> starting from git' guide to the wiki? I tried following Adar Dembo's
> suggestion from his 2008.10.13 tar ball announcement:

I'm not yet terribly familiar with the autotools stuff, but I was able to build 
the git code by doing:

. mkdir m4
. autoreconf -install
. ./configure
. make

Could you try those steps and see if you have better luck?

-- 
- Marcelo