Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:52:55 -0700 From: Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org> Cc: gerald@FreeBSD.org, vbox@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GCC 4.8.4 wchar error blocking devel/kBuild (virtualbox-ose dependency) Message-ID: <54FA0597.3000300@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150306205149.1dc0181a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <54F86D96.1020505@gmail.com> <54F8BA89.4000302@gmail.com> <20150306113508.05c2bcc9@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <54F9FCF9.2000104@gmail.com> <20150306205149.1dc0181a@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On 06/03/2015 12:51, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:16:09 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 06/03/2015 03:35, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >>> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:20:25 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Originally sent to vbox@FreeBSD.org this morning: >>>> On 05/03/2015 07:52, Scott Furry wrote: >>>>> While attempting to build emulators/virtualbox-ose(4.3.24) from >>>>> FreeBSD ports, I keep running into a error during the build of >>>>> devel/kBuild(0.1.9998). >>>>> Error stops the build, but it seems a strange error being unable to >>>>> determine a '__wchar_t' type. >>>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod (4.3.24) and emulators/virtualbox-ose >>>> (4.3.24) are still blocked by error given above. >>>> >>>> I may not be the only one affected here. A quick google search dug up >>>> this thread: >>>> https://gist.github.com/tangentstorm/af2c97d89e194b3356c3 >>>> >>>> User indicated exact same error using gcc4.8.4 build. >>> Try rebuilding gcc. During installation gcc thinks it's a good idea to >>> fix "bugs" in some system headers by copying them to an obscure directory >>> and then using those "fixed" copies instead of the real headers. >>> When these system headers are updated gcc has an outdated copy that >>> can cause errors in other headers. So, to be safe, whenever you update >>> the base system you also have to rebuild the gcc ports. >> Tried your suggestion. I went to update ports. I explicitly did an >> update to lang/gcc48 before ports updating. This brought gcc48 up to >> version 4.8.5-20150212. However, the original error message is >> persistent. It appears that kBuild is using the gcc-4.8.4 files (or is >> hardcoded to use these files) from somewhere else but not the installed >> version. >> >> Error not resolved. >> >> Thanks for trying. > What is the output of: > grep __wchar_t /usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.5/include-fixed/wchar.h Output: grep: /usr/local/lib/gcc48/gcc/x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.0/4.8.5/include-fixed/wchar.h: No such file or directory
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