[vbox-dev] VMs from MacPorts build fail to start (update)

Vasily Levchenko vasily.levchenko at oracle.com
Fri Jan 18 00:46:39 GMT 2013


Hi, Roy, 
Could you please check whether the attached patch fixes issue for you?
Note: 
it also required specifying 

 VBOX_GCC_TOOL=APPLEGCC42
 VBOX_GXX_TOOL=APPLEGCC42
 TEMPLATE_VBOXBLDPROG_TOOL=APPLEGCC42
in kmk <command line> or in LocalConfig.kmk 

On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Roy Liu <royliu at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I reported on this issue a while back, and we seem to have made some progress on the issue.
> 

> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/36910
> 
> The culprit seems to be a recent version of the ld64 linker. I am curious: What compiler toolchain is the official Mac OS X distribution of VirtualBox built with?

Your suspicious looks right. And Config.xml code contains the check whether version of Xcode is lower than 4.2. 

> This information may help us pinpoint the source of the issue.
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
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