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

[Scott Furry]

On 06/03/2015 12:52, Scott Furry wrote:
> 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 When these system headers are updated gcc has an outdated copy that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
Further to my last...
sudo find /usr/local -name 'wchar.h'

/usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.4/include-fixed/wchar.h
/usr/local/lib/gcc48/include/c++/tr1/wchar.h

grep __wchar_t 
/usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.4/include-fixed/wchar.h
typedef    __wchar_t    wchar_t;

gcc48 --version
gcc48 (FreeBSD Ports Collection) 4.8.4
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

grep PORTVERSION= /usr/ports/lang/gcc48/Makefile
PORTVERSION=    4.8.5.s20150212

Hope this helps
S