Re: KBUILD_BASENAME hoses nvidia driver / vmware build processes

[Petr Vandrovec]

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


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