From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 02:01:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826EE16A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:01:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from relay03.pair.com (relay03.pair.com [209.68.5.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F021643D45 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:01:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: (qmail 7016 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2005 02:01:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 27 Oct 2005 02:01:33 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 209.68.2.70 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:01:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Frank Knobbe In-Reply-To: <1130372697.74172.5.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <20051026205910.P3192@odysseus.silby.com> References: <20051025002406.M911@odysseus.silby.com> <1130372697.74172.5.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMware under FBSD 6 (was: An idea about forbidden ports) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:01:35 -0000 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Frank Knobbe wrote: > My apologies for changing the subject, but I have a question to that > very topic. I just completed a forklift upgrade from 4.10 to 6.0-RC1 on > my new laptop. Pretty much everything built fine, except VMware, and I > was trying to install it via pkg_add and ran into the same error. > > What is the reason that VMware doesn't built? Is this just temporary > until Makefiles can be hacked to make it build under 6.0 or is there > some architectural problem that prevents it from ever running on 6.0? > > Thanks, > Frank > > PS: Other than a minor issue with ipfilter, FBSD 6 seems to run > great.... but this is my first day with it, so... Well, FBSD 6's version of gcc is picky about a few warnings that it wasn't picky about before. I tried fixing them, but it then froze the machine. However, it does work properly on 5.4. I will have to get someone who knows the low level kernel internals to look at it and see what changed between 5.4 and 6.0 So if you need vmware3, don't hold your breath, it could be a few months. Mike "Silby" Silbersack