Guest Additions fail to build on OL7 and F26, running under Win7 host and Mac

[oraclebase]

I upgraded from 5.1.30 to 5.2.0. Installation went fine. OL7.4 VM ran fine with old Guest Additions. When I upgrade latest GA it fails. Combinations tried are:

Host: macOS Sierra Guest: OL7.4 Host: Win7 Guest: OL7.4 Host: Win7 Guest: Fedora 26

In all cases OS was up to date and rebooted before new GA were installed. In all cases older GA was fine running on new version prior to install.

The /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log file ends with this.

/tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.c: In function ‘hgsmi_send_caps_info’: /tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.c:99:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘AssertRC’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

AssertRC(p->rc);^M

/tmp/vbox.0/modesetting.c: In function ‘hgsmi_get_mode_hints’: /tmp/vbox.0/modesetting.c:330:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘AssertPtr’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]

LogFunc(("HGSMIHeapAlloc failed\n"));^M

cc1: some warnings being treated as errors cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: * tmp/vbox.0/modesetting.o Error 1 make[2]: * Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: * tmp/vbox.0/hgsmi_base.o Error 1 make[1]: * [_module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2 make: * [vboxvideo] Error 2 Creating user for the Guest Additions. Creating udev rule for the Guest Additions kernel module.

Full logs attached.

[oraclebase]

VBox Log

[oraclebase]

vboxadd-setup.log

[oraclebase]

Tried switching from UEK4 to the RH Compatibility Kernel.

root@ol7-122 ~]# uname -r 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 [root@ol7-122 ~]#

Same result.

[jiexa]

Looks like a duplicate of ticket #17163.

[Socratis]

It is a duplicate of #17163. The search functionality must be broken, there's no other logical explanation...