[vbox-dev] Error in building latest SVN

[Larry Finger]

Frank Mehnert wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I am using the latest SVN revision (6829) on an x86_64 platform. When I
>> compile the code, I get
>>
>> kBuild: Linking VBoxSDL
>> kmk_builtin_rm:
>> /home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxSDL/VB
>> oxSDL: is a directory
> 
> Known issue, please remove the complete out/obj/src/VBox/Frontends directory
> and rebuild.

That got me part way. Now I get

kmk[3]: Entering directory `/home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers'
kBuild: Compiling vboxdrv - /home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.c
/home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.c:46: error: expected ‘=’,
‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__attribute_used__’
/home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.c:88: error: expected ‘=’,
‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘__attribute_used__’
kmk[3]: ***
[/home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/src/VBox/HostDrivers/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.o]
Error 1
The failing command:
        @gcc -c -O2 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs
-Wno-pointer-sign -fno-stack-protector -O2 -mtune=generic -fno-omit-frame-pointer
-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -m64 -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2
-mno-3dnow -fno-reorder-blocks -ffreestanding -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -funit-at-a-time
-Wno-sign-compare -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support
-I/lib/modules/2.6.24-Linus-07894-g66c62b6/build/include -I/home/finger/vbox/include
-I/home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release -DVBOX -DVBOX_OSE -DRT_OS_LINUX -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-DRT_ARCH_AMD64 -D__AMD64__ -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DIN_RING0 -DIN_RT_R0
-DKBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DKBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR\(vboxdrv\) -DMODULE -DIN_RT_R0
-DIN_SUP_R0 -DCONFIG_VBOXDRV_AS_MISC -DUSE_NEW_OS_INTERFACE_FOR_MM
-Wp,-MD,/home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/src/VBox/HostDrivers/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.o.dep
-Wp,-MT,/home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/src/VBox/HostDrivers/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.o
-Wp,-MP -o
/home/finger/vbox/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/src/VBox/HostDrivers/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.o
/home/finger/vbox/src/VBox/HostDrivers/Support/linux/SUPDrv-linux.mod.c

Larry