svn commit: r528258 - in head/emulators/virtualbox-ose: . files

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 23 18:48:04 UTC 2020


On 20. 3. 23., Kevin Oberman wrote:
> vbox@ was folded into emulators@ a long time ago, shortly after the port
> stabilized about a decade ago. jkim@ has been supporting it and is
> effectively the maintainer and had done an outstanding job. The problem is
> that I have not seen anything from him in several months. The result is
> little going on. Kyle made the commit about this issue and that appears to
> be the only commit since jkim's commit to the kmod last October.

I am sorry but I am not doing much about VirtualBox because I am rarely
using it nowadays.

Jung-uk Kim

> Can someone in emulators comment?
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> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:47 AM Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>>> Okay to change this to USE_GCC=yes?
>>> It's actually needing to be changed back away from GCC, because this
>>> inherently breaks as the qt bits it uses are compiled with llvm and
>>> used an incompatible libc++ -- there's an open PR about it after this
>>> commit, I'm trying to work out where newer clang is failing to compile
>>> properly. =-(
>>
>> Hopefully Piotr's suggestion helps?
>>
>> (I'll refrain from touching this then.)
>>
>>> I seem to recall the situation is that there's now an effectively
>>> one-man vbox@ team, and this seems to be mostly on life-support.
>>
>> In fact, in response to my mail I got a note from emulators@ that
>> the message was sent to a closed list, so looks as if vbox@ is now
>> redirecting there?  A little confusing...


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