Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:51:49 +0100 From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> To: Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> Cc: gerald@FreeBSD.org, vbox@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GCC 4.8.4 wchar error blocking devel/kBuild (virtualbox-ose dependency) Message-ID: <20150306205149.1dc0181a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <54F9FCF9.2000104@gmail.com> References: <54F86D96.1020505@gmail.com> <54F8BA89.4000302@gmail.com> <20150306113508.05c2bcc9@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <54F9FCF9.2000104@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:16:09 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/03/2015 03:35, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:20:25 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Originally sent to vbox@FreeBSD.org this morning: >>> On 05/03/2015 07:52, Scott Furry wrote: >>>> While attempting to build emulators/virtualbox-ose(4.3.24) from >>>> FreeBSD ports, I keep running into a error during the build of >>>> devel/kBuild(0.1.9998). >>>> Error stops the build, but it seems a strange error being unable to >>>> determine a '__wchar_t' type. >>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod (4.3.24) and emulators/virtualbox-ose >>> (4.3.24) are still blocked by error given above. >>> >>> I may not be the only one affected here. A quick google search dug up >>> this thread: >>> https://gist.github.com/tangentstorm/af2c97d89e194b3356c3 >>> >>> User indicated exact same error using gcc4.8.4 build. >> Try rebuilding gcc. During installation gcc thinks it's a good idea to >> fix "bugs" in some system headers by copying them to an obscure directory >> and then using those "fixed" copies instead of the real headers. >> When these system headers are updated gcc has an outdated copy that >> can cause errors in other headers. So, to be safe, whenever you update >> the base system you also have to rebuild the gcc ports. > Tried your suggestion. I went to update ports. I explicitly did an > update to lang/gcc48 before ports updating. This brought gcc48 up to > version 4.8.5-20150212. However, the original error message is > persistent. It appears that kBuild is using the gcc-4.8.4 files (or is > hardcoded to use these files) from somewhere else but not the installed > version. > > Error not resolved. > > Thanks for trying. What is the output of: grep __wchar_t /usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.5/include-fixed/wchar.h
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