[Mono-devel-list] Weird mcs assertion in make test in System.Data

[Peter Williams]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 04:58, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> In the new build system, we want to de able to perform two different
> type of builds:
> *) a bootstrapping build where the newly compiled assemblies/compilers
> are used in the next steps of the build
> *) a normal build where all the stuff is built using the installed
> libraries and compilers
> 

Ok.

> In the first case we need MONO_PATH set as needed, in the second case it
> should not be set. For running the tests, I assume MONO_PATH could
> always be set to the just-built assemblies, though I don't understand
> why it shouldn't work when it's unset, maybe there is some underlying
> issue?
> 
> lupus

That was what I was getting at. At the very least, it was a crash in
mono, which would be nice to fix. It seemed to me like a vestige of some
corlib/runtime synchronization issue, so maybe now that it's worked out
I'll be able to do a consistent build one way or the other.

Peter

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