Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

[Rob]

On 6/14/11 8:06 AM, Ondrej Majerech wrote:
> On 06/09/2011 15:49, Rob wrote:
>> On 6/6/11 8:39 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>> You need to rebuild your kernel with
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 # Compatible with i386 binaries
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> included.
>>
>> I noticed that when I tried to build the ports, but I don't have
>> anything in /usr/src and no information was given as to what
>> packages/src I needed to install. I'd like to avoid diverging from the
>> stock release kernel for upgrade simplicity. What exactly does that do?
>> Will it introduce upgrade complexity (ie will I have to upgrade these
>> libs before I upgrade the kernel or some such)?
>
> Needless to say, that option seems to be enabled in GENERIC:
>
> [starlight] ~ > grep COMPAT_FREEBSD32 /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD32 # Compatible with i386 binaries
>
> Also I don't remember having to issue make build32 install32 or anything
> of that sort.
>
> You do need to have the FreeBSD source tree installed on your system,
> though. Did you try just fetching the source tree without building from
> it and then trying to build VirtualBox again?
>
> ~ Ondra

Is there a pkg_add command for installing the source tree, or should I 
just use sysinstall?

Rob