On Thursday 10 October 2013 13:46:25 Peter Gsellmann wrote: > [...] > > What i see is the fedora people fight a cruisade against static > libraries (for whatever good reason) and at the same time VirtualBox > tries to use even more libraries in static format (for whatever good > reason).
The part about VirtualBox is wrong. vbox-img is the only tool which uses a couple of static libraries for a good reason: This is a stand-alone tool which can be used even without a VirtualBox installation and sometimes not all required libraries are present. Therefore we do static linking here. As this small application is only a testcase it can be disabled by setting VBOX_WITH_TESTCASES= in your LocalConfig.kmk. > Is this a conflict the VB-developers/maintainers should be aware of? Sorry, but this is nonsense. > >From what i read in the linked document, fedoras remaining *-static > > packages are 'threatened species' > > Is VirtualBox supposed do be compilable on a Redhat/Fedora/CentOS machine? Of course. So far it did without any problems. Current trunk and 4.3_RC1 release will not be able to build the vbox-img tool. For a quick fix, see above. We will fix this for the final release. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert | Software Development Director, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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