#30974: virtualbox: build failure when curl is not installed universal -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: macsforever2000@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: reopened Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.0.99 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: virtualbox | -------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Changes (by ryandesign@…): * status: closed => reopened * resolution: fixed => Comment: Replying to [comment:11 ryandesign@…]:
The bitness of your kernel is irrelevant to everything except what bitness of kernel extensions you can run. Apple produced years worth of 64-bit Intel Macs that boot to a 32-bit kernel, which again is no detriment to being able to run 64-bit software on those machines.
What I wrote here is true, but I failed to realize that: 1. virtualbox includes kernel extensions, and 2. virtualbox's configure script runs `uname -m` to determine whether your kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit, and adopts the same architecture when building the rest of virtualbox This is not a behavior I believe we have encountered before in MacPorts so we don't have anything prepared for dealing with it, but I'll see what I can do. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30974#comment:14> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS