[vbox-dev] svn build fails today.

[Perry Halbert]

Any determination on how to proceed forward with this?  The way it 
stands building the VNC extension pack stops the normal build.  From 
what I see it looks like 0.9.9 is going to be a requirement but that pkg 
is not native to any stable build I have.


On 09/10/2012 07:00 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 20:55:36 Oliver Loch wrote:
>> I installed 12.04 in a VM and checked the headers. It's as Klaus said, the
>> rfb.h file defines IPv6 support that is not there.
>>
>> I got the source from Ubuntu and the main source from sourceforge and both
>> are defining LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 even if it is not there.
>>
>> Maybe we should check if LIBVNCSERVER_IPv6 is defined and if
>> LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION >= 0.9.9
> Yes, such a check is required but such a check is quite difficult
> (LIBVNCSERVER_PACKAGE_VERSION is a string). I wonder how a software
> is supposed to detect the interface version of that package.
>
>> Seems to be a bug in libvncserver. Sorry.
>>
>> @Klaus: what other issues did the patch create?
> For instance, the patch uses a Windows function which is Windows 2000+.
> Our Guest Additions do also support Windows NT4, therefore we did the
> quick hack and disabled the runtime change for Windows hosts.
>
> There were several other issues and some of them were fixed. See the
> current SVN for more details, for example on how to use RTStrCopy().
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Frank
>
>
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