Bug#729540: Packaged (WORKSFORME) open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544, perhaps it helps
Hi there,
Ran into the same issue, so I packaged open-vm-tools-9.4.0-1280544 from
upstream based on the sid package for 9.2.3. Works just fine for me in
Workstation 10.0.1 with linux-image-3.12-1-amd64. Did *not* test Shared
Folders (i.e. vmhgfs) which I don't care about since it has sucked for
years.
If someone needs it, you can find the source at
http://deb.limbasan.ro/sid/pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools_9.4.0-1280544-1.dsc
(there are also amd64 binaries, but I wouldn't run binaries provided by
Some Random Person Off The Internet.)
Not particularly well-versed in Debian packaging policy so I'm sure it
can be improved significantly.
Apart from the obvious version number change, the changes required were
as follows (detailed in the changelog as well):
- Removed 0004-vmblock-vmhgfs-compat-3_10.patch from the patch series,
it's no longer required.
- Altered dh_auto_configure invocation to include Debian's procps
library name (CUSTOM_PROCPS_NAME=procps as documented in configure.ac)
- Altered dh_auto_configure invocation to avoid gcc erroring out on
deprecated glib function declarations
(CFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated-declarations). I'm sure this violates some
policies, but upstream has clearly indicated in bug 122 at
http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/122/ that they won't fix
this (they need to support older glib versions, and they don't want to
litter the code with ifdefs.) Nate Muench provided a patch there if the
CFLAGS changes are inacceptable.
Hope this helps someone.
Mihai
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