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err installing open-vm-tools & Fedora 16

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i try installing open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873 on fedora 16 xfce. i got it to configure (with many dependencies via yum install). now when i execute make i'm returned the following error regarding "vmsync"

 

is there something i need to compile into the kernel? how to fix this error?

 

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Using 2.6.x kernel build system.

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync'

make -C /lib/modules/3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \

  MODULEBUILDDIR=/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux modules

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64'

  CC [M]  /home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync/sync.o

/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync/sync.c: In function ‘VmSyncAddPath’:

/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync/sync.c:230:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘path_lookup’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

 

make[4]: *** [/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync/sync.o] Error 1

make[3]: *** [_module_/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync] Error 2

make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64'

make[2]: *** [vmsync.ko] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/linux/vmsync'

make[1]: *** [vmsync] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/somebody/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules'

make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

 

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