On 25.11.2017 20:40, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 11:52 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> When I use the openSUSE spec file to build our RPMs from Oracle's >> source files, >> I get a failure when building vboxvideo_drv_system.so as follows: [...] >> Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > we don't need build vboxvideo_drv_system.so anymore since some release > of Xorg-server (many releases ago) , I don't remember well , also RHEL > 7 also don't need it, since RHEL 7.4 because they have backport the > code to kernel ... (so I don't really remember if is was kernel > requirement or an xorg requirement) , for sure vboxvideo_drv_system.so > is just need it for very old systems.
Thank you Sérgio, I should probably remove vboxvideo_drv_system altogether. If people want to build vboxvideo against recent X.Org (mainly for non-Linux) there is now a git-repository on freedesktop.org, and I still haven't got round to doing an actual release. Regards Michael -- Michael Thayer | VirtualBox engineer ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | D-71384 Weinstadt ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Hauptverwaltung: Riesstraße 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Nederland, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev