Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:26:52 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@mail.yourfit.com> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE will be tagged and done tonite, starting at 18:00 PDT Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007251424090.204-100000@armani.yourfit.com> In-Reply-To: <14717.54931.427993.642543@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, John Reynolds~ wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, July 25, Chris BeHanna wrote: ]
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >
> > 2. VMWare does not compile. It fails in vmnet, tripping over
> > the altered signature to ether_ifattach() in the
> > newly-committed /src/sys/net/if_var.h. If you look at the
> > diff, you'll see that an extra int parameter has been added.
> >
> > I don't think that either of these are showstoppers, but item #2
> > is rather troubling to those people who use VMWare heavily--especially
> > when they're beset by those lost souls who push Linux all the
> > time. :-(
> >
> > I have not yet filed a PR for the VMWare problem. I thought I
> > might try to cook up a patch first, if I can find some time.
>
> Which version of VMWare?
Both of whatever were in ports/vmware and ports/vmware2 as of
7/19/2000.
> I CVSup'ed RELENG_4 and the ports last night (and rebuilt and installed world
> and kernels) and I can confirm that I -CAN- build VMWare. The port was updated
> to vmware2-2.0.2.621 from vmware2-2.0.1.570 and I don't have any troubles
> building the KLDs.
I guess this was fixed between 570 and 621, then. I'll try a
cvsup and report back.
> Can't comment on the GIMP compile though ...
It's pretty unfortunate. GIMP is a helluva nice program. Once
I get VMWare up (to keep the wife happy), I can do a little digging
in the gnomelib source.
Thanks muchly,
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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