GCC 4.8.4 wchar error blocking devel/kBuild (virtualbox-ose dependency)

[Scott Furry]

On 06/03/2015 03:35, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:20:25 -0700 Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Originally sent to vbox at FreeBSD.org this morning:
>> On 05/03/2015 07:52, Scott Furry wrote:
>>> While attempting to build emulators/virtualbox-ose(4.3.24) from
>>> FreeBSD ports, I keep running into a error during the build of
>>> devel/kBuild(0.1.9998).
>>> Error stops the build, but it seems a strange error being unable to
>>> determine a '__wchar_t' type.
>> emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod (4.3.24) and emulators/virtualbox-ose
>> (4.3.24) are still blocked by error given above.
>>
>> I may not be the only one affected here. A quick google search dug up
>> this thread:
>> https://gist.github.com/tangentstorm/af2c97d89e194b3356c3
>>
>> User indicated exact same error using gcc4.8.4 build.
> Try rebuilding gcc.  During installation gcc thinks it's a good idea to
> fix "bugs" in some system headers by copying them to an obscure directory
> and then using those "fixed" copies instead of the real headers.
> When these system headers are updated gcc has an outdated copy that
> can cause errors in other headers.  So, to be safe, whenever you update
> the base system you also have to rebuild the gcc ports.
Tried your suggestion. I went to update ports. I explicitly did an 
update to lang/gcc48 before ports updating. This brought gcc48 up to 
version 4.8.5-20150212. However, the original error message is 
persistent. It appears that kBuild is using the gcc-4.8.4 files (or is 
hardcoded to use these files) from somewhere else but not the installed 
version.

Error not resolved.

Thanks for trying.