Virtualbox fails with BCC not working

[kjpetrie]

As there's now no difference between the binaries downloaded by getVirtualBox and the result of compiling from source I thought I'd have a go at packaging it, because a package would be easier for those with multiple machines to maintain than a series of download scripts for different applications.

However, the compile fails at:

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Checking for bcc:
  ** BCC not working!
configure.log contains:

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bcc -B /usr/bin/ -C-c -3 -S -o /home/ken/src/rpm/BUILD/VirtualBox-4.0.6_OSE/.tmp_out /home/ken/src/rpm/BUILD/VirtualBox-4.0.6_OSE/.tmp_src.c
Unable to execute bcc-cpp.
** BCC not working!
Googling this suggests it is not a new check, but it is now failing. Does this indicate that the package containing bcc (dev86?) needs rebuilding, or is there now a missing dependency?

[AS]

Hello kjpetrie,

apparently the -B option and the compiler default paths are actually ignored:

-B
prefix for executable search path (as usual; the search order is all paths specified using -B, in order, then the path given in the environment variable BCC_EXEC_PREFIX if that is set, then the compiled-in defaults (something like /usr/lib/bcc/ followed by /usr/bin/)

you should try to override this modifying PATH:
PATH=/usr/lib/bcc :/usr/bin:$PATH
export PATH

Made a very short test, and apparently the bcc-cpp error is gone, I'm not used with bcc source, can't assure it will work.
Of course, the above behavior suggest that dev86 package may be broken/misconfigured ....

AS

[kjpetrie]

Thank you. I'll give it a try.