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Date:      Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:47:55 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, vbox@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r528258 - in head/emulators/virtualbox-ose: . files
Message-ID:  <75519f0f-501a-80cc-f7dc-15ff97c4cff7@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1u6Q7Sye4QSZNKq2TTwLf%2ByddefFE9BpxKJ0tte_iqXYw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <202003120041.02C0fXkP049507@repo.freebsd.org> <alpine.LSU.2.21.2003222329250.4184@anthias.pfeifer.com> <CACNAnaGrw83tXJiAQ=_iLK1qxQC84K6hi1KmDVHS9oRPZozaWg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.LSU.2.21.2003230116210.4184@anthias.pfeifer.com> <CAN6yY1u6Q7Sye4QSZNKq2TTwLf%2ByddefFE9BpxKJ0tte_iqXYw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 20. 3. 23., Kevin Oberman wrote:
> vbox@ was folded into emulators@ a long time ago, shortly after the port
> stabilized about a decade ago. jkim@ has been supporting it and is
> effectively the maintainer and had done an outstanding job. The problem is
> that I have not seen anything from him in several months. The result is
> little going on. Kyle made the commit about this issue and that appears to
> be the only commit since jkim's commit to the kmod last October.

I am sorry but I am not doing much about VirtualBox because I am rarely
using it nowadays.

Jung-uk Kim

> Can someone in emulators comment?
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
> E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
> PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 1:47 AM Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Kyle Evans wrote:
>>>> Okay to change this to USE_GCC=yes?
>>> It's actually needing to be changed back away from GCC, because this
>>> inherently breaks as the qt bits it uses are compiled with llvm and
>>> used an incompatible libc++ -- there's an open PR about it after this
>>> commit, I'm trying to work out where newer clang is failing to compile
>>> properly. =-(
>>
>> Hopefully Piotr's suggestion helps?
>>
>> (I'll refrain from touching this then.)
>>
>>> I seem to recall the situation is that there's now an effectively
>>> one-man vbox@ team, and this seems to be mostly on life-support.
>>
>> In fact, in response to my mail I got a note from emulators@ that
>> the message was sent to a closed list, so looks as if vbox@ is now
>> redirecting there?  A little confusing...



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