Virtualbox 3.2.6 fails to compile

[Simon Lipp]

Under latest ArchLinux, I can’t get VirtualBox compiling :

kBuild: cpp VgaBiosBin - /var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/Graphics/BIOS/vgabios.c
gcc: Corporation": No such file or directory
gcc: VM: No such file or directory
gcc: VirtualBox": No such file or directory
<command-line>::14: warning: missing terminating " character
<command-line>::15: warning: missing terminating " character
kmk[2]: *** [/var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/out/linux.x86/release/obj/VgaBiosBin/_vgabios_.c] Error 1
kmk[2]: *** Deleting file `/var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/out/linux.x86/release/obj/VgaBiosBin/_vgabios_.c'

[Frank Mehnert]

Please post the output which comes after the lines you posted. The kmk build system should print the command line of the failing command.

[Simon Lipp]

Output of kmk -d

[Simon Lipp]

No, I don't have any command after that (only kmk leaving directories after the error). Attached the output of kmk -d, I hope there's something here

I suppose the problem is located in src/VBox/Devices/Graphics/BIOS/Makefile.kmk near line 77 : when I replace $(VBOX_VENDOR) and $(VBOX_PRODUCT) by empty strings, the error is gone — but it seems to fail to parse the vendor string a short while after. The problems are :

1. I have absolutely no knowledge in kmk
2. Why the hell I seem to be the only one having this problem on something that looks so trivial ? (escaping)

If I remove $(QUIET) before the suspect command, I get this : gcc -E -P \

-DVBOX -DVBOX_VERSION_STRING=\"3.2.6_OSE\" \ -DVBOX_VENDOR='"Oracle Corporation"' -DVBOX_PRODUCT='"Oracle VM VirtualBox"' \ -DVBE -DVGABIOS_DATE="" -DVBOX -DVBOX_OSE -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -UDEBUG \ -o /var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/out/linux.x86/release/obj/VgaBiosBin/_vgabios_.c /var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/Graphics/BIOS/vgabios.c

Which seems just fine to me, but if I run it manually (both under zsh and bash) I have the same error : gcc: Corporation": No such file or directory gcc: VM: No such file or directory gcc: VirtualBox": No such file or directory

I find this strange…

[Simon Lipp]

Sorry, I’m not used to WikiFormatting. The command :

gcc -E -P \
        -DVBOX -DVBOX_VERSION_STRING=\"3.2.6_OSE\" \
        -DVBOX_VENDOR='"Oracle Corporation"' -DVBOX_PRODUCT='"Oracle VM VirtualBox"' \
        -DVBE -DVGABIOS_DATE="''" -DVBOX -DVBOX_OSE -DVBOX_WITH_64_BITS_GUESTS -DVBOX_WITH_HARDENING -UDEBUG \
        -o /var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/out/linux.x86/release/obj/VgaBiosBin/_vgabios_.c /var/abs/local/virtualbox-ose/src/VirtualBox-3.2.6_OSE/src/VBox/Devices/Graphics/BIOS/vgabios.c

The error:

gcc: Corporation": No such file or directory
gcc: VM: No such file or directory
gcc: VirtualBox": No such file or directory

[Simon Lipp]

Shame on me. It was colorgcc fault — I installed years ago and eventually forgot that I installed it. You can close this bug :)

[Frank Mehnert]

Thanks for the feedback. But I'm using colorgcc as well without any problems (version 1.3.2.0-8). So you should probably update it and it should work.