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

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 17:31:59 EDT


On Sat, 15 May 2004, Kwan Lowe wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 15:34, Eben King wrote:
>
> > > 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)
>
> Hmm.. In VMWare 2.x, or thereabouts, there were some patches that you
> needed to get it to build correctly. If you check the knowledge base on
> the vmware site there are some links to update packages. More than
> likely they will fix the problems you're experiencing.

Thanks. I'd love to fix this for free, but if going to 4.x is the only
way around it, I guess I'll have to do that.

> BTW, I'm going to be purchasing the 4.5 version soon. They've lowered
> their prices and it's now under $200. They also have some sort of user
> group discount.

I'm currently a USF student. The student discount should be comparable.

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