367443 – app-emulation/virtualbox-9999 sets RPATH to /opt/VirtualBox but is installed to /usr/lib/virtualbox

Bug 367443 - app-emulation/virtualbox-9999 sets RPATH to /opt/VirtualBox but is installed to /usr/lib/virtualbox

Summary: app-emulation/virtualbox-9999 sets RPATH to /opt/VirtualBox but is installed ...

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2011-05-15 22:24 UTC by cJ
Modified:	2017-08-31 18:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description cJ 2011-05-15 22:24:12 UTC

VirtualBox sources currently (2011-05-15) hardcodes library RPATH to /opt/VirtualBox.

If the 9999 ebuild does not specify the installation path beforehands, there will be a mismatch, and /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so will try to load VBoxVMM.so from /opt/VirtualBox.

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7623

Upstream suggested solution is to perform :
echo "VBOX_PATH_APP_PRIVATE = /usr/lib/virtualbox" >> LocalConfig.kmk

I did not try it as it takes a while to compile... I just linked /usr/lib/virtualbox to /opt/VirtualBox to work around the problem.