ports/190432: emulators/virtualbox-ose pulls unnecessary Qt libraries when building headless
Hernan Freschi
hjf at hjf.com.ar
Fri May 30 22:30:01 UTC 2014
>Number: 190432
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: emulators/virtualbox-ose pulls unnecessary Qt libraries when building headless
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri May 30 22:30:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Hernan Freschi
>Release: 9.2-RELEASE-p3
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD vtserver.vt 9.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Jan 11 03:25:02 UTC 2014 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
When compiling VirtualBox (emulators/virtualbox-ose), with WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf, it still depends on Qt (it tries to build Qt frontend). This is because NLS option requires Qt libraries.
So the problem is that Qt starts compiling a *full* distribution (including unnecessary Qt Designer and WebKit components). This takes hours to build even on fast machines.
As a workaround, it's possible to disable NLS and Qt, which will build VirtualBox without pulling Qt.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Add WITHOUT_X11=yes to /etc/make.conf
2. build emulators/virtualbox-ose with default options
It will also build a complete Qt distribution.
>Fix:
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