Changes between Version 44 and Version 45 of Linux build instructions

Timestamp:

Aug 11, 2008 8:45:35 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

Frank Mehnert

Comment:

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Linux build instructions

@@ -87 +87 @@
 Note that !VirtualBox makes use of YASM as its assembler which is part of the source repository as the currently available releases of YASM contain various bugs. As soon as a working release becomes officially available, we will add YASM to the list of prerequisites.
 
-Building on a 64bit host still requires 32bit libraries and build tools as the Guest Additions which are part of the build process are 32bit. Note that on 64bit Ubuntu systems some links to shared libraries are missing. This can be fixed with
+Building on a '''64bit''' host still requires 32bit libraries and build tools as the Guest Additions which are part of the build process are 32bit. Note that on 64bit Ubuntu systems some links to shared libraries are missing. This can be fixed with
 {{{
 ln -s libX11.so.6    /usr/lib32/libX11.so 
@@ -96 +96 @@
 ln -s libXext.so.6   /usr/lib32/libXext.so
 }}}
+
+On Linux distributions where gcc default to version 4.3 you need to specify a compatibility compiler for the `recompiler` directory. Known Linux releases are ''Debian/Lenny'' and ''openSUSE 11''. Execute
+{{{
+./configure --with-gcc-compat=gcc-4.1
+}}}
+on openSUSE 11 after you installed the packages '''cpp41''' and '''gcc41''' from the [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/gcc/openSUSE_11.0/ SUSE repository]. Lenny ships packages for '''cpp-4.1'''/'''gcc-4.1''' and '''cpp-4.2'''/'''gcc-4.2'''.
 
 == Building !VirtualBox ==