[openbeos] Re: VMWare opens their tools software

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:32:31 +0200 CEST

> 2007/9/12, Brian Verre <bverre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Thanks Zenja!
> >
> > http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > From the README file in source, under known issues:
> >
> > (*)Building with GCC versions before 3.0 will fail. GCC will 
> > complain that "-fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused-value are invalid 
options", and fails to build "vm_atomic.h" saying that "a forbidden 
register was spilled", or "-Wno-unused-value does not exist".
> >
> > If that dual GCC2/GCC4 binary support project is in the works for 
> > Haiku, open-vm-tools might be a good test candidate.
> >
> Our gcc isn't a plain port of the 2.95.3, it has lots of bugfixes and
> features (thanks to Oliver Tappe), so it might be able to compile it
> neverthless.
> At least, I remember Oliver fixing something regarding that "a
> forbidden register was spilled" problem.

Yes but this one is a never ending...
you might have some luck changing options (trying different -O, -
fdisable-expensive-optimizations...)

François.

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