[vbox-dev] Building error with VirtualBox 3.2.8-OSE

[Frank Mehnert]

On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Suk Kyu Lee wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with building VirtualBox 3.2.8-OSE.
> I got the message from
> VirtualBox-3.2.8-OSE/src/VBox/Additions/common/pam/pam_vbox.c where it
> displays the error that says "error: expected ')' before '*' token on
> line 84, 105,126,257,281, 288, 295, 303, 309.
>
> I tried to fix the code but somehow I wasn't sure what was the main
> cause of the following error message. Moreover, I'm still receiving the
> same error message.

The usual procedure when hunting such compilation errors in the
VBox source tree is the following:

 1. Do 'kmk -j1' and wait until it aborts at the file in question.
 2. Touch the file in question (in your case pam_vbox.c)
 3. Do 'kmk -j1 KBUILD_VERBOSE=2'
 4. Copy'n'paste the command line to compile this file and replace
    '-c' by '-E -dD' and the extension of the file name after '-o'
    by '.i'.
 5. Look at the resulting .i file, perhaps send it to me via
    private E-mail, don't forget to compress it!

Kind regards,

Frank
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