I’ve built a default install of Fedora 13 64-Bit in a virtual machine for the purpose of figuring out what are the dependencies and workarounds required to compile VirtualBox OSE from Subversion.

  1. Install make, gcc etc; as root:
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yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"
  1. Install 32-Bit build tools and some Qt4 libraries, Java etc; as root:
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yum install dev86 iasl qt4-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 texlive-texmf-latex java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel zlib-static glibc-static libstdc++.i686 libvncserver-devel libxslt-devel libIDL-devel SDL-devel libXmu-devel libstdc++-static
  1. Symlink the Fedora-packaged JVM to where Oracle expect it to be installed, as root:
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cd /usr/lib/jvm/
ln -s java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 java-6-openjdk
  1. Install the bera-mono font into LaTeX, as root:
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cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
mkdir bera
cd bera/
wget http://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bera/beramono.sty
texhash
  1. Download makeself, as a regular user:
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cd /var/tmp/
wget http://megastep.org/makeself/makeself.run
sh makeself.run
  1. Install and rename makeself.sh to makeself as Oracle are expecting, as root:
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cd /var/tmp/makeself-2.1.5
mv makeself.sh makeself
cp makeself makeself-header.sh /usr/local/bin/
  1. Compile VirtualBox, UserGuide.pdf, the kernel modules and the Guest Additions as a regular user:
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cd ~/vbox/
svn update
./configure --disable-hardening
source env.sh
kmk all VBOX_WITH_VNC=1
cd out/linux.amd64/release/bin/src
make
cd ~/vbox/
kmk packing

Update: The same setup seems to work for Fedora 14 too.

Update 2: might as well remove the VBOX_WITH_VNC=1 and installation of libvncserver-devel as VNC support in OSE is going to be broken now the new VRDE API is committed.