Opened 22 months ago
Last modified 14 months ago
#21169 new enhancement
Deprecation of libIDL on Linux
| Reported by: | ceamac | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | other | Version: | VirtualBox 7.0.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
Hi,
libIDL has been deprecated 8 years ago and some distributions (i.e., Gentoo) are trying to drop it. VirtualBox still depends on it (it is the only dependency left in the tree).
Please consider finding a non-deprecated replacement.
Thank you!
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 22 months ago
comment:2 by , 21 months ago
Hi galitsyn,
It is a build time dependency. I cannot build from sources without having libidl installed. It is used by out/linux.amd64/release/bin/xpidl
comment:3 by , 14 months ago
Alpine Linux removed libidl: https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=3a13e02e129c3b202ed57d053ebe0884c6512618
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Hi ceamac,
Official VirtualBox 7.0.0 Linux packages do not depend on libidl from what I can see. What exactly do you mean?