virtualbox on FreeBSD 8.2

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:29:28 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote:
> 
>> On Mi., 24. Aug. 2011 22:57:54 CEST, wynkoop at wynn.com wrote:
>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>>
>>> ===> The following configuration options are available for
>>> python27-2.7.2_1:         THREADS=off "Enable thread support"
>>>            HUGE_STACK_SIZE=off "Use a larger thread stack"
>>>            SEM=off "Use POSIX semaphores (experimental)"
>>>            PTH=off "Use GNU Pth for threading/multiprocessing"
>>>            UCS4=on "Use UCS4 for unicode support"
>>>            PYMALLOC=on "Use python's internal malloc"
>>>            IPV6=on "Enable IPv6 support"
>>>            FPECTL=off "Enable floating point exception handling"
>>> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
>>>
>>> -Brett
>>
>> Thats it! Virtualbox needs python threads which is enabled per default for python 2.6 and 2.7 but you have disabled it for some reason.
>>
>> So recompile python 2.7 with the threads option enabled and then compiling vbox should work just fine.
> 
> Should the virtualbox port Makefile set BROKEN if Python threads are missing?

No. This is a port option that is enabled per default. Modifying port
options is always on your own risk and the general rule is that ports
don't check that.

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Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/