From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Seth Goldberg <sethmeisterg@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KBUILD_BASENAME hoses nvidia driver / vmware build processes
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:04:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441F26FD.9090108@vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1064edf0603201308v4dab8355qee1dcfc9f9b5a611@mail.gmail.com>
Seth Goldberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just an FYI -- I just grabbed 2.6.16 and installed it without a
> problem. However, when I went to rebuild the nvidia module and vmware
> modules, I discovered that the lack of a definition for
> KBUILD_BASENAME in linux/include/linux/spinlock.h cause these
> components' builds to fail. I added a stupid workaround and was able
> to build and install these components, but I wanted to bring this to
> your attention.
For VMware either grab VMware Server beta (though I believe that it is broken
due to '(unsigned long)' added to PAGE_OFFSET; it will be fixed in next beta),
or grab updated modules from
http://platan.vc.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/vmware-any-any-update98.tar.gz.
Petr Vandrovec
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 21:08 KBUILD_BASENAME hoses nvidia driver / vmware build processes Seth Goldberg
2006-03-20 21:15 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-03-20 22:04 ` Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2006-03-21 5:16 ` Harald Dunkel
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