vmware: kernel-source vs. kernel-headers

[Martin F Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>]

hi,
trying to install vmware, it needs
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h, which is not in the
kernel-source package but in kernel-headers. however, kernel-headers
alone doesn't suffice for vmware:

Building the vmmon module.

make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config1/vmmon-only/driver-2.4.9'
In file included from .././linux/driver.c:11:
  ../linux/driver-config.h:35: warning: No include path in which to find
  linux/modversions.h

kernel-source, on the other hand, does not contain
linux/include/autoconf.h, so i can't `make dep` in it (.config copied
from /boot):

make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include/linux/autoconf.h', needed
by `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include/linux/modules/signal.ver'.
Stop.

however, with plain kernel-source, vmware complains:

The path "/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include" is a kernel header
file directory, but it does not contain the file "linux/autoconf.h" as
expected.



what is the right procedure with kernel-{headers,source}? vmware
*does* build if i use the regular /src/src/linux tree i used for
make-kpkg...

thanks,
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