virtualbox not building on -current

Beat Gaetzi beat at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 8 20:18:52 UTC 2009


2009/8/8 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
> Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>
>> The current svn port fixes a lot of known problems (also for HEAD) so
>> I hope we could update the port before the port freeze.
>
> Can you post a patch to the existing port so that I can give it a try?

Please try this patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~beat/vbox/virtualbox-cvs-3.0.51r22072.patch

>> - Some users reported problems updating virtualbox with portmaster
>> (same problem with devel/kBuild). Unfortunately I hadn't time to
>> verify this yet.
>
> Yes, this is a known issue, and the problem is in kBuild. Portmaster
> uses a number of environment variables to do its work and they seem to
> be overflowing kBuild's stack.

I see. Thanks for the information.

Beat


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