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padoor
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 7:40 am    Post subject: any idea for vmware-modules kernel-3.15.6 ? Reply with quote

i want to run vmware-player or workstation .
but the new kernel 3.15 does ot merge vmware-modules.
any fix has been made ?
i get the error

Code:
 CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only/linux/dentry.o
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only/linux/inode.c: In function ‘InodeOpReadlink’:
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only/linux/inode.c:181:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘vfs_readlink’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
    return vfs_readlink(dentry, buffer, buflen, iinfo->name);
    ^
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only/linux/inode.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.15.6-gentoo'
make: *** [vmblock.ko] Error 2
 * ERROR: app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2::x-portage failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
 *
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2::x-portage'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2::x-portage'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/temp/environment'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work/vmblock-only'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2/work'

>>> Failed to emerge app-emulation/vmware-modules-279.2, Log file:

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can try using vmware-modules-279.2-r1 in jtriley overlay (layman).
You can send an issue to bugzilla and request to add that ebuild to official tree.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:29 pm    Post subject: Thanks Reply with quote

I confirm overlay with jtriley is working with my 3.15.6 gentoo sources.
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