From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 20:55:21 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 F229C1065670 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wynkoop@wa3yre.wynn.com) Received: from mail.wynn.com (wa3yre.wynn.com [199.89.147.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89778FC12 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wynn.com (mail.wynn.com [199.89.147.3]) by mail.wynn.com (8.14.3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id p7PKtIC7001415; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:55:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wynkoop@wa3yre.wynn.com) Received: from mail.wynn.com ([199.89.147.3] helo=mail.wynn.com) by ASSP-nospam; 25 Aug 2011 16:55:18 -0400 Received: (from wynkoop@localhost) by mail.wynn.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p7PKtI3J001414; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:55:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wynkoop) Message-Id: <201108252055.p7PKtI3J001414@mail.wynn.com> In-Reply-To: To: Warren Block Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:55:18 -0400 (EDT) Sender: wynkoop@wa3yre.wynn.com From: wynkoop@wynn.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Cc: emulation@freebsd.org, Bernhard Froehlich , 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 20:55:22 -0000 > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > > >> 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. > > One of the functions of a port is to make sure the requirements are in > place, or fail gracefully if they aren't. But I understand what you > are saying, and don't know if there's a good way to do this anyway. Greeting- I am rebuilding now and will let everyone know if it works now that python is built with threads. I think that if the port needs python threads it should SAY SOMETHING. I spent a month on this before asking for help. Now maybe I should not have spent so much time, but the net is full of posts in various places about virtualbox not building, so I wanted to run down the already ASKED and ANSWERED before bothering people. I have seen other ports fail if a pre-req was not built according to the ports liking. I do not know how it is done, but I know it can be done. Thanks everyone and I will post my results when my build is done. -Brett