Bug 163930 – app-emulation/virtualbox compiles now well under amd64, but installation fails

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description abma 2007-01-26 16:30:30 UTC]

Revision 351 compiles well on amd64, but the installation fails, because of wrong (hardcoded) paths in the ebuild.

replacing x86 in paths with amd64 should work.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ebuild virtualbox-9999.ebuild compile install qmerge

Actual Results:  
compiling is successfull, installation fails.

Expected Results:  
installation succed

use the right paths

[Comment 1 abma 2007-01-26 16:58:04 UTC]

Created attachment 108206 [details]
ebuild to compile/install virtualbox on amd64.

i've only changed x86 to amd64 (make a diff to see the small changes)
with this file, installation works on amd64! (revision 351)

[Comment 2 Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 2007-02-05 09:32:44 UTC]

Created attachment 109206 [details]
Ebuild that fixes build on amd64 and doesn't break x86

Install paths could be wrong according to someone on IRC. May need further fixing

[Comment 3 abma 2007-02-09 22:48:21 UTC]

i've tried it again, revision 806 works with amd64! :-)

[Comment 4 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2007-02-10 16:05:03 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> i've tried it again, revision 806 works with amd64! :-)
> 

yep, it works but there are still problems with the kernel module "vboxdrv"
and nmi_watchdog, you need to disable it at boot.

Additionally there are random system reboots during normal use of a virtual
machine but i can't reproduce this: i got 3 system reboots. (the real one not the guest machine) be careful!

[Comment 5 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2007-02-12 18:48:20 UTC]

The module bug has been reported alongside with this to upstream, so marking as such. And yes, they care for users :)

[Comment 6 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2007-02-12 18:59:54 UTC]

Meh keyboards--

Also I modified ebuilds in CVS to have your amd64 patches. Thanks much :)