On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:15:30 +0100 Bernhard Fröhlich <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi virtualbox users! > > Almost 10 weeks have passed since the last cft with 4.3.0 and we have > made a lot of improvements since then so here we are to see what they > are worth! > > I have already killed VirtualBox 4.1.x and prepared the tree for the > upcoming commit of 4.3 which will happen hopefully very soon. The > mess with FreeBSD 10.0 has also significantly improved and all > relevant patches were committed to the official portstree. > We have also pushed a lot of patches upstream already so the number > of ports patches for 4.3 has decreased a bit. > > This release would not have been possible without the awesome > feedback and help on emulation@ and all people that did send patches: > Mikhail Tsatsenko, Peter Jeremy, David Morgan, Mario Lobo, Jung-uk > Kim, Daniel Lorch, William Grzybowski, Volodymyr Kostyrko. > > If you are interested in helping with virtualbox maintenance and > development or have noticed a bug you can easily find us on IRC. > > Changes in the Port: > - Update to 4.3.6 > - Update phpvirtualbox to 4.3-1 > - Fix pulseaudio option > - Adopt USES=kmod > - Convert USE_PYDISTUTILS=easy_install to USE_PYDISTUTILS=yes > - Add USE_PYTHON_BUILD=yes because if PYTHON option is disabled we > could > - Fix startup order of vboxnet and move NETWORKING to BEFORE section > - Fix building with GCC from ports on 10 to correctly use libstdc++ > from GCC and not from base. > - Add missing file to fix undefined symbol in kernel modules kernel: > link_elf_obj: symbol RTThreadCtxHooksAreRegistered undefined > - Disable stripping away RPATH on FreeBSD for Hardened-R3 binaries > - kBuild: Replace hardcoded freebsd strings with KBUILD_TARGET in > do-install > > Changes in VirtualBox 4.3: > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog > > VirtualBox 4.3.6 Ports: > http://people.freebsd.org/~decke/virtualbox/virtualbox-cft-4.3.6-20140103.tar.gz > > IRC: #freebsd-vbox on Freenode > > Bernhard on behalf of the VirtualBox on FreeBSD Team! > Great news !! Confirming perfect compilation and execution with 6 VMs up and running. I opened a PR about the Novell problem: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12516 No replies so far. I'll keep on trying to find out whatś wrong. Thanks for the hard work Bernhard !! -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
