From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 6 20:56:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652971065690 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@midsummerdream.org) Received: from p3plsmtpa01-01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (p3plsmtpa01-01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net [72.167.82.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C2818FC14 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2011 20:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 6271 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2011 20:56:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (70.131.50.248) by p3plsmtpa01-01.prod.phx3.secureserver.net (72.167.82.81) with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2011 20:56:54 -0000 Message-ID: <4DED3F15.5060500@midsummerdream.org> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:56:53 -0500 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: lists@midsummerdream.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:56:55 -0000 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