GCC 4.8.4 wchar error blocking devel/kBuild (virtualbox-ose dependency)

[Scott Furry]

On 06/03/2015 12:51, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:16:09 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/03/2015 03:35, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:20:25 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Originally sent to vbox at FreeBSD.org this morning:
>>>> On 05/03/2015 07:52, Scott Furry wrote:
>>>>> While attempting to build emulators/virtualbox-ose(4.3.24) from
>>>>> FreeBSD ports, I keep running into a error during the build of
>>>>> devel/kBuild(0.1.9998).
>>>>> Error stops the build, but it seems a strange error being unable to
>>>>> determine a '__wchar_t' type.
>>>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod (4.3.24) and emulators/virtualbox-ose
>>>> (4.3.24) are still blocked by error given above.
>>>>
>>>> I may not be the only one affected here. A quick google search dug up
>>>> this thread:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/tangentstorm/af2c97d89e194b3356c3
>>>>
>>>> User indicated exact same error using gcc4.8.4 build.
>>> Try rebuilding gcc.  During installation gcc thinks it's a good idea to
>>> fix "bugs" in some system headers by copying them to an obscure directory
>>> and then using those "fixed" copies instead of the real headers.
>>> When these system headers are updated gcc has an outdated copy that
>>> can cause errors in other headers.  So, to be safe, whenever you update
>>> the base system you also have to rebuild the gcc ports.
>> Tried your suggestion. I went to update ports. I explicitly did an
>> update to lang/gcc48 before ports updating. This brought gcc48 up to
>> version 4.8.5-20150212. However, the original error message is
>> persistent. It appears that kBuild is using the gcc-4.8.4 files (or is
>> hardcoded to use these files) from somewhere else but not the installed
>> version.
>>
>> Error not resolved.
>>
>> Thanks for trying.
> What is the output of:
> grep __wchar_t /usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.5/include-fixed/wchar.h
Output:
grep: 
/usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.5/include-fixed/wchar.h: 
No such file or directory