[vbox-dev] my patches for VirtualBox-4.2.0 on Fedora 17+

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Sérgio,

Sorry, I haven't forgotten this, but haven't had time to look into it 
yet due to other things I had to take care of.

Regards,

Michael

On 03/12/12 19:35, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Seg, 2012-12-03 at 17:38 +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
>> Hello Sérgio,
>>
>> On 02/12/12 23:46, Sérgio Basto wrote:
>>> Hi , I had used VBOX_USE_SYSTEM_XORG_HEADERS on rpm for rpmfusion and
>>> worked very well, I had drop one patch but others two still up ...
>>> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/devel/VirtualBox-4.2.0-VBoxGuestLib.patch?revision=1.1&root=free&view=markup
>> I wonder whether you really need this patch, given that you are only
>> building X.Org drivers and not XFree86 ones?
>
> I want unblundle $(VBOX_PATH_X11_XFREE_4_3)/, if not required have a
> rule in kmk that doesn't try to build it, would be nice.
>
>>> http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/VirtualBox/devel/VirtualBox-4.2.0-mesa.patch?revision=1.3&root=free&view=markup
>> I will take a look at this.
>>
>>> I wonder, If you want permit unbundle some other sources like :
>>> src/libs/liblzf-3.4/
>>>
>>> the :
>>> src/libs/boost-1.37.0/
>>> src/libs/libxml2-2.6.31/
>>> src/libs/libpng-1.2.8/
>>> src/libs/zlib-1.2.6/
>>>
>>> I saw that is just used on system that don't have it, and don't used on
>>> Linux systems.
>
>> Not quite sure what you mean here.  Does it really matter if you are not
>> building that code anyway?
>
> We have two rules in guidelines of fedora packaging that I'm trying to
> follow, no bundle sources and no static libs, all should be compile
> against system sources and dynamically.
> I send to you a backup file that isn't applied on package because fails
> to compile with liblzf . I'd make possible compile against liblzf of the
> system .
> Others bundle sources like boost, libxml2, libpng and zlib already use
> system sources.
> The others src/libs are kStuff and xpcom18a4, which I don't know what to
> do .
>
> At last other question is how I build RuntimeR3 dynamically ?
> # RuntimeR3 - Static Runtime for Ring-3 executables.
> #
> RuntimeR3_TEMPLATE      = VBoxR3Static
>
> Thanks,
>