Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:12:15 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.4 Message-ID: <CAE-m3X3=YZtMxcc0SAVQVo1DSL9m_QpR6Lzcx1W2UvaYDYBdKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201210301704.53980.mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com> References: <CAE-m3X0bA2g3yMomta1pZwtfi_FawDvzyE=aKaJ6x_QFRVMtOA@mail.gmail.com> <CAE-m3X054xDBEev=7n8zXOK5ZbkP-ADKFWuVyLt8kA4g5LzJmg@mail.gmail.com> <201210301605.06718.mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com> <201210301704.53980.mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com>
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Mike Jakubik <mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 October 2012 4:05:06 PM Mike Jakubik wrote: >> On Tuesday 30 October 2012 3:56:29 PM Bernhard Fr=F6hlich wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Mike Jakubik >> > >> > > Hello, i have just tried to compile this on an up to date releng9 >> > > system. >> > > >> > > - Base GCC, compiles ok, works ok. >> > > >> > > - GCC47, fails, due to ugly -fno-format-extensions and >> > > -fformat-extensions compiler hacks. >> > >> > Patches are welcome but it's not supported from us yet and probably wi= ll >> > never be. >> >> Thats a shame, i'll see if i can make it work, though im not an expert i= n >> this field. Default compiler for 10.0 will be CLANG from base but gcc 4.2 will still be= in base so we should be able to use that without additional work. That should give us at least one more release cycle if we need it. > This was apprantly already discussed by others two years ago. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-July/007873.htm= l > > I've modified Config.kmk to exclude those FreeBSD custom compiler options= and it > continued to compile. Unforntunately it did fail again but for a differen= t > reason, it seems like getting this to work with an up to date version of = gcc > wouldnt be too hard by someone who knew what they were doing. Andriy Gapon has some more recent patches for an older vbox version that also work with gcc 4.6: http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/vbox4-gcc45.patch --=20 Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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