[vbox-dev] news for packaging VirtualBox 6

[Sérgio Basto]

On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 08:06 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 1/2/19 8:57 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > For VirtualBox 6 we need add VirtualBoxVM to the package with set
> > suid
> > , and unset suid to VirtualBox binary to avoid problem reported on
> > [5]
> > .
> > 
> > Also we don't need one patch anymore !
> > On Debian, for patch [1] upstream now have one patch that fix this.
> > 
> > On OpenSuse patches [2] and [3] may be replaced with
> > VBOX_USE_SYSTEM_GL_HEADERS=1 and VBOX_NO_LEGACY_XORG_X11=1
> 
> Thanks for the updates on building the openSUSE version of VB. I'm
> still having 
> a problem in that Tumbleweed's version of rpmlint is failing the
> build because 
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox is not built to be position
> independent. The 
> specific error is
> 
> virtualbox-qt.x86_64: E: non-position-independent-executable
> (Badness: 10000) 
> /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
>   This executable must be position independent.  Check that it is
> built with
>   -fPIE/-fpie in compiler flags and -pie in linker flags.
> 
> Although that sounds simple, I have not been able to find where to
> insert the 
> required compiler and linker flags. Help would be appreciated.

My guess is the fpie patch [1], can you try build without this patch ? 

[1] 
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/Virtualization/virtualbox/vbox-fpie.diff?expand=1

-- 
Sérgio M. B.