While installing gentoo-sources-5.11.0, out of tree compilation failed for virtualbox-guest-additions, which apparently need to be updated for kernel 5.11. 1613437512: Started emerge on: Feb 15, 2021 20:05:12 1613437512: *** emerge --ignore-default-opts --buildpkg=n --quiet-build=y --reg ex-search-auto=y @module-rebuild 1613437537: >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.18 to / 1613437537: === (1 of 1) Cleaning (app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1 .18::/var/db/repos/gentoo/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions/virtualbox-gu est-additions-6.1.18.ebuild) 1613437538: === (1 of 1) Compiling/Merging (app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-addi tions-6.1.18::/var/db/repos/gentoo/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions/virt ualbox-guest-additions-6.1.18.ebuild) 1613437741: *** Finished. Cleaning up... 1613437742: *** exiting unsuccessfully with status '1'. 1613437742: *** terminating.
Yes, so as usual we have to wait for a future upstream release...
Does not the kernel now carry its own VBOX modules for virtualbox-guest-additions? The we could just skip building the modules for virtualbox-guest-additions and just rely on the kernel ones.