Bug#691148: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

2012-11-14 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 13 November 2012 17:55:14 Felix Geyer wrote: On 12.11.2012 12:19, Frank Mehnert wrote: It is correct that we switched from bcc to Open Watcom to compile the PC BIOS as well as the VGA BIOS. The reason is indeed that bcc is unmaintained since years, has many bugs and creates code

Bug#691148: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

2012-11-14 Thread Felix Geyer
On 14.11.2012 08:27, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2012 17:55:14 Felix Geyer wrote: On 12.11.2012 12:19, Frank Mehnert wrote: It is correct that we switched from bcc to Open Watcom to compile the PC BIOS as well as the VGA BIOS. The reason is indeed that bcc is unmaintained

Bug#691148: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

2012-11-13 Thread Felix Geyer
On 12.11.2012 12:19, Frank Mehnert wrote: It is correct that we switched from bcc to Open Watcom to compile the PC BIOS as well as the VGA BIOS. The reason is indeed that bcc is unmaintained since years, has many bugs and creates code which is far away from being optimized. And we didn't find

Bug#691148: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

2012-11-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
It is correct that we switched from bcc to Open Watcom to compile the PC BIOS as well as the VGA BIOS. The reason is indeed that bcc is unmaintained since years, has many bugs and creates code which is far away from being optimized. And we didn't find an appropriate alternative to Open Watcom.