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.