Re: [SLUG] "unresolved symbols" when compiling VMware's modules

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 14:44:13 EDT


On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 13:34, Eben King wrote:
> I have kernel 2.4.22, and I've tried VMware 3.1 (which my license works
> on), 3.2 (maybe it'll work here), and 4.0 (it won't work here, but I have
> a 30-day eval license), and I get the same results. I had to recompile
> VMware's support modules (no, I didn't change the kernel version), but
> when I try, I get loads of unresolved symbols. vmmon builds fine (albeit
> with some "deprecated option" warnings on 3.x), but vmnet fails with:

What distro are you running? On some (Fedora, RedHat, possibly Mandrake)
you need to use the GCC 3.2 compilers instead. On Fedora Core 1, for
example, install gcc32 then set CC=gcc32 before building the kernel
modules.

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