emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions 6.1.18 fails to build while compiling mount_vboxfs.c

[parv/freebsd]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 2:16 PM parv/freebsd wrote:
...

> I suspect when the build of virtualbox-ose-additions was running, the
> source
> tree might have not have been at "stable/12" branch. After making sure that
> the tree is indeed at "stable/12", build, and thus install, had succeeded.
>
> A "make package" had failed due to missing "$WRKSRC/../.metadir", which it
> is.
> Why?
>

Sorry, what failed was "make install package" due to above missing
directory.
A separate "make package" command after the previous command resulted in
the package being built. But stored in $WRKSRC/pkg, not anywhere in
$PACKAGES.

  - parv