[oi-dev] Virtualbox

[Peter Tribble]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Far as I understood things... anything above 5.0.X, that is, any of
> the 5.1.x series will not install due to requiring gt5 I think it was.
>

It includes its own private copy of Qt, rather than requiring the
OS to have one (which in the case of Solaris it usually won't).

Actually, I suspect the problem is more likely to be

https://www.illumos.org/issues/5709

If you run VirtualBox with LD_DEBUG=versions you'll see (you have to do
this as root otherwise setuid gets in the way)

...
19254: 1: version needed processing:
file=/opt/VirtualBox/amd64/libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5
19254: 1:             file                        version
19254: 1:             libc.so.1                   SUNW_1.22.7
19254: 1:
19254: 1:
19254: 1: ld.so.1: VirtualBox: fatal: libc.so.1: version 'SUNW_1.22.7' not
found (required by file /opt/VirtualBox/amd64/libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5)
...

A quick look at why it wants that version of libc using pvs

pvs -vs libQt5XcbQpaVBox.so.5
...
    libc.so.1 (SUNW_1.22.7):
        asprintf;

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-Peter Tribble
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