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

[Suk Kyu Lee]

2010-09-16 오후 3:13, Frank Mehnert 쓴 글:
> 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
> 

Hello,

Thank you for reply, but I have some doubts about your reply.

>   2. Touch the file in question (in your case pam_vbox.c)
I did not understand what you mean by this...

>   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'.
I'm not also sure about where the location of the -o. Do you mean by the
config file? or the Makefile?

Thank you.

Regards,
Suk Kyu Lee