Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

[Rob]

On 6/9/11 4:55 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2011 10:49:37 Rob wrote:
>> On 6/6/11 8:39 PM, Mario Lobo wrote:
>>> On Monday 06 June 2011 17:56:53 Rob wrote:
>>>> I was attempting to install virtualbox on my 8.2-p2 64-bit system this
>>>> weekend, and hit a rather curious situation.  The pre-packaged version
>>>> of virtualbox retrievable by pkg_add is 3.2.12 (which looks in
>>>> ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release).  Poking around on the ftp server, I
>>>> see that packages-8.1-release also has a 3.x version, but
>>>> packages-8-stable has the latest 4.0.8.
>>>>
>>>> I went to look in ports, which contains 4.0.8, and build it myself but I
>>>> got an error saying I need to have the 32-bit libraries installed in
>>>> order to build virtualbox.
>>>>
>>>> So, my question is 2-fold:
>>>> 1) What is the reason the 64-bit pre-packaged version of virtualbox is
>>>> still at the 3.x version?  Would there be a problem with installing the
>>>> packages (virtualbox and kernel module) from packages-8-stable?
>>>>
>>>> 2) How do I build virtualbox 4.0.8 on a 64-bit system w/o the 32-bit
>>>> libs.  Is that possible?  Searching around has produced old e-mail
>>>> threads indicating this was a problem as of 2 or so years ago with the
>>>> 3.x release.  If it's not possible to build w/o the 32-bit libs, what do
>>>> I need to install?
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>
>>> You need to rebuild your kernel with
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> options		COMPAT_FREEBSD32	# Compatible with i386 binaries
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> included.
>>>
>>> And as per the port's error message:
>>>
>>> cd /usr/src; make build32 install32; /etc/rc.d/ldconfig restart
>>
>> I noticed that when I tried to build the ports, but I don't have
>> anything in /usr/src and no information was given as to what
>> packages/src I needed to install.  I'd like to avoid diverging from the
>> stock release kernel for upgrade simplicity.  What exactly does that do?
>>    Will it introduce upgrade complexity (ie will I have to upgrade these
>> libs before I upgrade the kernel or some such)?
>>
>> Rob
>
> To remain with the same kernel you installed, you must install the source tree
> from the same CD/DVD you used for installation.
>
> You will have to run sysinstal and go to
>
> Configure      Do post-install configuration of FreeBSD
>
> then
>
> Distributions               Install additional distribution sets
>
> then mark
>
> [ ]  src       Sources for everything
>
> Choose the CDROM as installation media. After that you'll have all the sources
> on your HD and can proceed to the compilation of the 32 libs.
>
> If the sources are from the same CD you installed the system, they will be in
> sync with your kernel. No upgrade issues.

What is that command doing though?  It's building what from src?  What 
is the output of build32?  I assume it's not a kernel.

Also, do you know the difference between pre-built packages on the 
freebsd ftp server in packages-8.2-release vs packages-8-stable?

Rob