Re: [meta-mono] [RFC] [PATCH 0/1] Force MONO_CFG_DIR

[Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk>]

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Hi Richard,

On 17/07/2015 19:44, Alex J Lennon wrote:
>
> On 17/07/2015 19:24, Richard Tollerton wrote:
>> Alex J Lennon <ajlennon@dynamicdevices.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>> On 17/07/2015 17:57, Richard Tollerton wrote:
>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>
>>>> When you mentioned having weird build troubles, that reminded me that I
>>>> was seeing weird build problems of my own, that I had been refraining
>>>> from sending patches on until I could better characterize the issue.
>>>>
>>>> If you've been seeing weird build failures in executables that really
>>>> should never be failing in the first place -- i.e., gacutils failures,
>>>> or "invalid resx file", or anything involving not being able to dlopen
>>>> libc or being unable to open /etc/mono/config -- you might be interested
>>>> in this patch.
>>> I think I have identified the problems I was seeing with the recipes,
>>> which boil down to the lack of a mono gmcs script and inheriting
>>> autotools-brokensep instead of autotools.
>>>
>>> I can't quite understand why you were not seeing the problem at your
>>> end, but I can see that gmcs was removed at end 2014 -
>>>
>>> https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/b304ec5e0e694ef7098e0fc3eba9dbc0162f4568
>> Yeah, I saw it too. :F I wound up working around it by adding a gmcs
>> symlink in the recipe, but then I also added a gmcs symlink in my host
>> OS, which wound up masking the build errors when I tried removing the
>> gmcs symlink from the recipe later.
>>
>> There were also some autotools-brokensep build problems I was planning
>> on submitting later, sounds like you got those fixed first (yay!)
> Good - that explains it then. Yes autotools-brokensep is in there now.
> The gmcs workaround will arrive shortly
>
>>> The commits I made today address the autotools-brokensep issue and get
>>> me to a point where I can build image-full-mono with a hand-added gmcs
>>> script in sysroot
>>>
>>> (There was a patch needed for monotools-server to support the more
>>> recent mono-xsp and mono-upnp needed autotools-brokensep).
>>>
>>> Now I just need to decide whether to reintroduce the gmcs script or fix
>>> all the other autotools configurations...
>> A-ha! mono-xsp fixed its gmcs references in master, but hasn't cut a
>> release since May 2013. I just asked on #monodev for somebody to cut a
>> new release, but until then, I suppose a workaround is to create a
>> mono-xsp_git.bb?
>>
>> Which other packages require gmcs? I see that monotools-server does, but
>> I can't find evidence of that being maintained since 2010, and I
>> otherwise don't have a use for it AFAIK.

Out of image-full-mono these have problems without gmcs present,

Looks like we need a solution for these three to use mcs instead of gmcs,

mono-xsp_3.0.11.bb

checking for gmcs... no
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking,
--with-libtool-sysroot
configure: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet
configure: error: You need to install 'gmcs'
Error: Could not run ./configure, which is required to configure xsp

dbus-sharp_0.8.0.bb

checking for MONO... yes
checking for gmcs... no
configure: error: You need to install gmcs
Configure failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid
debugging

mono-addins_1.1.bb

checking for pkg-config...
/data_drive/imx6/rootfs_builder/qemux86.dizzy/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for gmcs... no
configure: error: mcs Not found
Configure failed. The contents of all config.log files follows to aid
debugging

...

mono-upnp (requires mono-addins)
dbus-sharp-glib (requires dbus-sharp)
monotools-server (requires mono-xsp)

Cheers,

Alex


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