virtualbox

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 14:38, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> There seems to be build issues with virtualbox if java is not present. This effects the buildbot for Lion.

As reported here:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34020


> For now I disabled java for Lion+.
>    if {${os.major} > 10} {
>        configure.args-append   --disable-java
>    }
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox
> 	Public API (Java, Python, SOAP, XPCOM) to control VM configuration and execution
> 
> Should we add "--disable-java --disable-python" for all OS versions? The port currently has no dependency on python.

For what purpose does VirtualBox use Java?