Bug#406992: virtualbox FTBFS

[Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de>]

Hi,

since virtualbox is still stuck in the NEW queue, I tried to build it
myself for i386 from the pkg-virtualbox subversion repository with a
tarball repackaged according to the instructions in
debian/README.rebuild and found the following problems (using a sid
pbuilder environment):

* it lacks a Build-Depends: libhal-dev
* somewhere a hard coded yasm path pointing to tools/linux.x86/bin/yasm
  is used, i fixed this by creating this directory and a symlink there
  to /usr/bin/yasm in debian/rules
* it seems to look for kernel headers in /usr/src/linux
  after several tries to use the ones in /usr/include I still got
  missing headers and finally gave up.
  The configure option --with-linux=... seemed not to work.
  The following patch helped a bit: in Config.kmk set
     export VBOX_LINUX_SRC           := /usr

The buildds probably will fail with the same errors.

Is there a pkg-virtualbox developer mailinglist? Since I couldn't find
one I attach this information to the ITP.


Andreas