[Mono-devel-list] [RFA, PATCH] 'make bootstrap' -- a better reincarnation of 'make fullbuild'

[Mike Kestner]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:43, Raja R Harinath wrote:

> > This error occurred during:
> >
> > tmpinst=`cd _tmpinst && pwd` ; \
> > PATH=$tmpinst/bin:$PATH ; export PATH ; \
> > cd ./../mcs && make
> >
> > I was able to complete the make bootstrap by first doing a cd mono/mono;
> > and a make install.  After that, the make bootstrap finished.
> 
> So, at some point you must've installed a new mscorlib.dll into
> /opt/mono/lib, since this wouldn't work otherwise.

No, I can assure you that I did not install anything, unless make
bootstrap installed it.  The /opt/mono prefix was working before the
make bootstrap, as it's the prefix I've been doing all my development on
since the tarball was published.
> 
> > So it looks like there's a missing step in the process still.  Any
> > ideas, Raja?
> 
> I'll look into it.  But, I'm fairly sure this is a pre-existing ailment.
> Not covered by this HMO ;-)

Maybe the monoresgen script needs to be installed into the tmpinst
prefix, or maybe it isn't pointing to the tmpinst version of
monoresgen.exe?  Just a thought.

-- 
Mike Kestner <mkestner at ximian.com>