>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:12:36 +0200, Frank Mehnert said: > > If something is missing then this is a bug. Which VBox source tarball are > you using?
Thanks for the reply. It was http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0.8.tar.bz2 from the downloads page. > The source for the RPM builds are in src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpm > and an rpm packagecan be built like > > cd src/VBox/Installer/linux && rpm/rules binary > > There must be a file /etc/distname which contains something like fedora14 > to describe the Linux distribution were are building on. Have a look at > src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpm/rules. Yes, I found that. I'll list the problems here (I was running on Fedora 14 x86_64): 1. The main problem is that I'm pretty sure the rpms are built without VBOX_OSE defined. This can be seen by doing strings /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxBalloonCtrl | grep 'Package type:' which doesn't mention "(OSE)" with the Fedora 14 rpm at least. A VBOX_OSE build would include "(OSE)" in the output according to the source code. This contradicts the configure script, which always defines VBOX_OSE (it sets OSE=1 and there is no configure option to prevent this). I tried editing configure to say OSE=0, but that build fails because src/VBox/Storage/VDFormats/Makefile.kmk is missing from the source but is included by src/VBox/Storage/Makefile.kmk when VBOX_OSE is undefined. 2. The second problem is that rpm/rules doesn't know how to build the VBoxGuestAdditions tar file. This patch (based on debian/rules) fixes it: --- src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpm/rules~ 2011-05-16 17:33:43.000000000 +0100 +++ src/VBox/Installer/linux/rpm/rules 2011-06-21 19:28:33.205003767 +0100 @@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ $(if $(STAGEDISO),cp $(STAGEDISO)/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso $(builddir)/bin/additions,) . rpm/env.sh && kmk -C $(vboxroot) $(bld_flags) \ VBOX_NO_LINUX_RUN_INSTALLER=1 \ + VBOX_LNX_ADD_ARCHIVE.x86=$(builddir)/bin/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions-x86-r$(svnrev).tar.bz2 \ + VBOX_LNX_ADD_ARCHIVE.amd64=$(builddir)/bin/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions-amd64-r$(svnrev).tar.bz2 \ + VBOX_PATH_ADDITIONS.linux.x86=$(builddir)/bin/additions \ + VBOX_PATH_ADDITIONS.linux.amd64=$(builddir)/bin/additions \ packing touch rpm/build-stamp 3. The third problem is that rpm/rules doesn't build VBoxBalloonCtrl and vboxwebsrv, but they are needed to build the rpm. I think this might related to VBOX_OSE. 4. FWIW, running a non-rpm build with kmk all; kmk -C src/VBox packing also fails because it doesn't build VBoxBalloonCtrl. 5. A minor problem is that rpm/rules never sets svn_revision, possibly because the source tar file doesn't contain the SVN_REVISION file that rpm/rules tries to include. __Martin _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
