We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C header files location)

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Fri Dec 15 17:18:44 UTC 2006


On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 05:03:31PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > Building the vmware modules require exactly the same thing as any other
> > kernel modules package on debian.
> 
> No. The other kernel modules on Debian build into a .deb which can be
> moved to a different system without hassle. The VMware stock module
> build process forces them directly into the file system of the build
> system, which might be different from the actual target system.

I said it requires the same thing (kernel headers, compiler, etc).  I
did not say it gave the same result (a debian package for example).

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