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

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 15:34:34 EDT


On Sat, 15 May 2004, Kwan Lowe wrote:

> 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?

Redhat 8.

> On some (Fedora, RedHat, possibly Mandrake) you need to use the GCC 3.2
> compilers instead.

Got it, it seems:

[eben@pc eben]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)

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