Re: VMWare build failure

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:38, Ben Paley wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I think this is a -current issue. When I started using -current I began to get 
> weird behaviour from vmware2: eventually every time I powered on the virtual 
> machine the screen would freeze up so I couldn't get a console, and then the 
> whole machine - the REAL machine, I mean - would reboot. Bit rubbish, huh?
[snip]

> -I. -I_at_ -I_at_/../include -I/usr/include -finline-limit=15000 -fno-common  
> -mno-align-long-strings -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -ffreestanding -Wall 
> -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes 
> -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -c 
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c: 
> In function `cleanup_module':
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:284: 
> warning: unused variable `retval'
> /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only/freebsd/driver.c:301:35: 
> i386/isa/intr_machdep.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib/vmmon-only.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2/work/vmware-distrib.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/vmware2.
> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall6065.18 
> make
> ** Fix the problem and try again.
> ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / 
> !:failed)
> 	! emulators/vmware2	(missing header)
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

First off if you're running -CURRENT you want emulators/vmware3, missing
header would conclude you don't have the header installed that it wants.

Guessing you're running -CURRENT you have the kernel source installed,
so my suggestion is to run vmware3.

Unless you have a specific reason to run 2?

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