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open-vm-tools 12.5.4 configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found

Open ggg-315 opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

Describe the bug

Check whether the syntax of [if test "$withval" = "no"; then enable_vgauth = "no"; fi] in the open-vm-tools/configure.ac file contains an extra space because the following error is reported during compilation: configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found

Reproduction steps

1.Download the source code to the local host. 2.Run the autoreconf -i command to generate the configure file. 3.Run the following command: bash configure --enable-deploypkg=no --without-x --without-xmlsec1 CFLAGS= '-s -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -fstack-protector-all -fPIC -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fuse-ld=lld' ...

Expected behavior

The compilation is expected to succeed.

Additional context

The stable-12.5.2 version is normal. After the stable-12.5.4 version is switched to the stable-12.5.4 version, a compilation error is reported. No compilation options are changed, but the source code of the new version is downloaded for compilation.

ggg-315 avatar Nov 18 '25 11:11 ggg-315

I find this intriguing since we do continuous integration of open-vm-tools builds on multiple Linux releases and have not encountered this issue.

Please provide the OS release and version on which you have seen this issue.

Also I assume from your mention of "stable-12.5.2" and "stable-12.5.4" that you are accessing the files by means of one of the "Source code (zip) or (tar.gz)" bundles?

Thank for bringing this to our attention and providing the requested information

johnwvmw avatar Nov 24 '25 16:11 johnwvmw