From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 12:59:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954221065674 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@bluelife.at) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FE48FC16 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 10D011; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:59:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:59:04 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: <201108242057.p7OKvsct085044@mail.wynn.com> <1314248865.3239.8.camel@Nokia-N900-42-11> Message-ID: X-Sender: decke@bluelife.at User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.4 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B0208.4E564717.0155,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, wynkoop@wynn.com Subject: Re: virtualbox on FreeBSD 8.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:05 -0000 On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:29:28 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bernhard Fröhlich wrote: > >> On Mi., 24. Aug. 2011 22:57:54 CEST, wynkoop@wynn.com wrote: >> >>> Here it is: >>> >>> >>> ===> The following configuration options are available for >>> python27-2.7.2_1:        THREADS=off "Enable thread support" >>>           HUGE_STACK_SIZE=off "Use a larger thread stack" >>>           SEM=off "Use POSIX semaphores (experimental)" >>>           PTH=off "Use GNU Pth for threading/multiprocessing" >>>           UCS4=on "Use UCS4 for unicode support" >>>           PYMALLOC=on "Use python's internal malloc" >>>           IPV6=on "Enable IPv6 support" >>>           FPECTL=off "Enable floating point exception handling" >>> ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings >>> >>> -Brett >> >> Thats it! Virtualbox needs python threads which is enabled per default for python 2.6 and 2.7 but you have disabled it for some reason. >> >> So recompile python 2.7 with the threads option enabled and then compiling vbox should work just fine. > > Should the virtualbox port Makefile set BROKEN if Python threads are missing? No. This is a port option that is enabled per default. Modifying port options is always on your own risk and the general rule is that ports don't check that. -- Bernhard Fröhlich http://www.bluelife.at/