[Tuxaloosa] VBox on slackware

[E Hanson]

i figured it out and got it built.
i built the iasl compiler, moved it to /usr/share and linked it to /usr/bin.
that allowed me to build virtualbox.
then i realized that ./somename.SlackPackage isn't the end of the 
process and went and looked in my /tmp folder where there was a .tgz of 
virtualbox AND the acpica that i built.
installpkg took care of them and i ready to go.

erik

E Hanson wrote:
> i'm having a little trouble getting VirtualBox on the new Slackware 
> (12.2). i've tried a SlackBuild with the source. and i've tried 
> ./configure, make, make install on the source and both give me the 
> following output after unpacking:
> patching file VBox.sh
> /tmp/SBo/VirtualBox-2.0.6
> Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.x86, target 
> machine: linux.x86, OK.
> Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
> Checking for gcc: found version 4.2.4, OK.
> Checking for as86: found version 0.16.17, OK.
> Checking for bcc: found version 0.16.17, OK.
> Checking for iasl:
>  ** iasl (variable IASL) not found!
>
> and then it exits.
>
> google tell me that iasl is an intel compiler. part of the acpica 
> package. acpica.org has unix source code, but also says that the linux 
> kernel >2.4 has it built in, and that the linux versions of the 
> user-space ACPICA utilities (iASL, AcpiExec, AcpiXtract) can be built 
> from the UNIX ACPICA source code package.
> so i got the package and built iasl (in the compiler/ dir) with make, 
> and it built just fine... but i don't know how to install it. i can 
> run it from the compiler directory. should i just move the contents of 
> the compiler/ directory to a directory in my $PATH? do i need to buils 
> ALL of the tools or can i make do with just the iasl?
>
> erik
>