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 -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
