recent virtualbox breakage

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Fri Oct 15 13:29:18 UTC 2010


On 10/15/10 09:19, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:08:39 -0400, Michael Butler
> <imb at protected-networks.net> wrote:
>> kBuild: iasl DevicesR3 -
>> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl
>> /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-3.2.10_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/PC/vbox.dsl
>>    736:                     Name (_CID, "smc-napa")
>> Error    4001 -
>>                                 String must be entirely alphanumeric ^
>> (smc-napa)
>> *** Error code 1

 [ .. ]

> I don't know enough about acpi to properly fix this but how about
> trying to follow the error message? So replace "smc-napa" with "smcnapa"
> and see if it works. Probably jkim@ has some time to look into that.

After removing the hyphen, it compiles, installs and runs as expected,

	imb





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