Bug 191473 – app-emulation/virtualbox-1.5.0 configure no longer understands "--without-hal" option

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description A.C.Heron 2007-09-06 08:11:31 UTC]

Emerging app-emulation/virtualbox-1.5.0 with USE="-hal" stops the installation, because its ./configure script no longer understands "--without-hal" switch.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add to /etc/portage/package.use something like
app-emulation/virtualbox  -hal

2. emerge virtualbox 

Actual Results:  
Emerge will stop with message 'Unrecognized option "--without-hal"'

Expected Results:  
The compilation should proceed.

If VirtualBox no longer works without HAL, the "hal" keyword should be removed from the ebuild and the corresponding part should be made mandatory. Otherwise the ebuild should be reworked to correspond to the changes in ./configure .

[Comment 1 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2007-09-06 20:24:35 UTC]

Yup this should be reworked... as there's a --build-headless thing now...

Alessio: your part :)

[Comment 2 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2007-09-08 19:37:08 UTC]

Created attachment 130363 [details, diff]
virtualbox-1.5.0 ebuild patch 

- remove hal USE flag && hal "--without-hal" parameter
- remove some cruft installed
- fix permissions for VBoxTunctl

[Comment 3 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2007-09-08 19:48:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Yup this should be reworked... as there's a --build-headless thing now...
> 
> Alessio: your part :)
> 

Please try the following patch 

[Comment 4 Markus Ullmann (RETIRED) 2007-09-17 09:52:19 UTC]

Fixes applied to CVS, thankies :)