[Nix-dev] Virtualbox on 64bit failing

[Eelco Dolstra]

Lluís Batlle wrote:

> I can't get virtualbox compiling in my x86_64. From the commits I
> understood it should already work, so maybe I have something wrong
> configured:
> 
> kBuild: Compiling VBoxREM -
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/VBoxRecompiler.c
> In file included from
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/fpu/softfloat-native.h:13,
>                  from
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/fpu/softfloat.h:405,
>                  from
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/target-i386/cpu.h:56,
>                  from
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/vl.h:92,
>                  from
> /tmp/nix-build-0kyva17r9lzibw89pqaz4agadmabalyr-virtualbox-2.2.0.drv-0/VirtualBox-2.2.0_OSE/src/recompiler_new/VBoxRecompiler.c:27:
> /nix/store/mj3912hffh144f6hl66r3gjhzd2fcb2x-gcc-4.3.1/include/c++/4.3.1/fenv.h:34:28:
> error: bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory

This is a bug in GCC 4.3 in the Nixpkgs trunk.  It has been fixed in the stdenv
branch, see e.g.
http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/stdenv/kernelPackages_2_6_28.virtualbox

We hope to merge the branch Real Soon Now :-)

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