headless virtualbox-5.2.4 fails with this error: /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-5.2.4/work/VirtualBox-5.2.4/src/VBox/HostServices/SharedClipboard/x11-stub.cpp:58:29: error: macro "NOREF" passed 2 arguments, but takes just 1 NOREF(pClient, fHeadless); This bugreport for NixOS seems legit and worked for me. YMMV. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/32199 If correct, the problem exists as least as far back as virtualbox-5.2.2
emerge --info: Portage 2.3.19 (python 2.7.14-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.26-r3, 4.14.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.14.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2720QM_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 16460576 total, 2206816 free KiB Swap: 1048572 total, 1048572 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 19:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 7399e89fec4d9080bd67c2fb8f0b89396687d78e sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.29.1 p3) 2.29.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.1-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.10.1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.34.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.12::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.29.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 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emerge -pqv '=app-emulation/virtualbox-5.2.4::gentoo': [ebuild R ] app-emulation/virtualbox-5.2.4 USE="headless lvm pam sdk udev -alsa -debug -doc -java -libressl -opengl -pax_kernel -pulseaudio -python -qt5 -vboxwebsrv -vnc" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
Created attachment 513130 [details] build log:
Created attachment 514776 [details, diff] User patch for NOREF bug Good catch. Their patch works. I've modified it a tad to work with Gentoo's user patches.
Still needed for virtualbox-5.2.6?
Current stable =app-emulation/virtualbox-5.2.26 should be fine.
