VBox upgrade fails

[Petro Rossini]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Petro Rossini <petro.rossini at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 17 April 2012 21:13:12 Petro Rossini wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:03 AM, AN <andy at neu.net> wrote:
>>> > Trying to update VBox fails with:
>>> >
>>> > # portsnap fetch update
>>> > # pkg_version -vl\<
>>> > virtualbox-ose-4.1.8                <   needs updating (port has 4.1.12)
>>>
>>> ..
>>>
>>> > *** Building 'vboxdrv' module ***
>>> > "/usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk", line 483: MK_CLANG_IS_CC can't be set by a
>>> > user. *** [all] Error code 1
>>> >
>>> > Stop in
>>> > /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod/work/VirtualBox-4.1.12/out/freeb
>>> > sd.amd64/release/bin/src. *** [do-build] Error code 1
>>>
>>> That looks very similar to the compile error I had before on a
>>> FreeBSD-8 system. I upgraded to FreeBSD-9 and did not see the error
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> I suspect compiling on FreebSD-8 is broken.
>>
>> Totally untrue !
> Hmmh. I wonder why I had the problem. As said, it was on AMD 64bit,
> FreeBSD-8-STABLE a few weeks ago, and I compiled 4.1.8.
>
> I used the gcc from the base system and did not have any make.conf
> entries. It was a "standard base" without any tweaks.
>
> I still have one 8.2-STABLE box with a kernel built on Jan 31. It is
> the identical twin of the box where I experienced the problem.
>
> I just run a portsnap and will see what happens if I try to build the
> newest VirtualBox. Takes a bit of time so may not come back until
> tomorrow (East Australian Time, it's afternoon here now)

For the records: VirtualBox 4.1.12 (newest in the ports) compiles on
this box, with 8.2-STABLE box with a kernel built on Jan 31.

So at least my problem disappeared (had the error on 4.1.8).

Regards
Peter