[desktop-discuss] Compiling Mono under snv_7x?

[Albert Lee]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Mario Goebbels wrote:

> Installing JDS Common Build Environment fails horribly due to a lack of
> packages it wants to install. So instead, I've applied the patches
> manually and tried to compile. Won't work.
>
> I first thought it was my peculiar setup, where I've installed a lot of
> newer versions of some components. But since they're only getting loaded
> via LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my regular profile, compiling it under root
> should be like using a fresh environment. It fails here, too.
>

The JDS CBE overlay includes a lot of GNU tools for build systems 
that rely on GNUisms, and Mono is probably one of them. You should be 
able to use it without installing additional packages it requests from the 
Nevada DVD, as most of those are l10n-related.

-Albert