[Mono-devel-list] compiling mono on ultralinux sparc - flaky?

[Zoltan Varga]

                                        Hi,

  sparc/linux is not (yet) supported. We need somebody with the neccessary
technical skills, motivation, and access to hardware to do the port. Since the
sparc arch is supported, porting boils down do adding support for the
differences
between solaris and linux and their ABI.

                         Zoltan

On Apr 8, 2005 9:03 PM, Esposito, David <desposito at opentv.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in running mono on sparc ultra linux (gentoo).
> 
> Searching for both "sparc" and "ultra" on the mono website doesn't show up
> with much. Here's what I have:
> 
> davide at venice davide $ uname -a
> Linux venice 2.4.26-sparc #3 Mon Jun 7 17:19:23 PDT 2004 sparc64 sun4u TI
> UltraSparc I   (SpitFire) GNU/Linux
> 
> So using 1.1.6 tar file and configure line:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=sparc-unknown-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share
> /man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localsta
> tedir=/var/lib --with-preview=yes --with-tls=pthread --with-jit=no
> --with-interp
> =yes --without-icu
> 
> It stops here:
> 
> make[8]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/mcs/cla
> ss/I18N/MidEast'
> make all-local
> make[9]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/mcs/class/I18N/MidEast'
> MONO_PATH="../../../class/lib/net_2_0:$MONO_PATH"
> /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/runtime/mono-wrapper
> ../../../gmcs/gmcs.exe /r:mscorlib.dll /r:I18N.dll  -d:NET_1_1 -d:NET_2_0
> -debug /noconfig  /target:library
> /out:../../../class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEast.dll  @I18N.MidEast.dll.sources
> MONO_PATH="../../../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap:$MONO_PATH"
> /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/runtime/mono-wrapper
> ../../../class/lib/net_1_1_bootstrap/sn.exe -q -R
> ../../../class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEast.dll ../../../class/mono.snk
> 
> Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException:
> /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/mcs/class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEa
> st.dll :
> /var/tmp/portage/mono-1.1.6/work/mono-1.1.6/mcs/class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEa
> st.dll
> make[9]: *** [../../../class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEast.dll] Error 1
> 
> I looked and the file ../../../class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEast.dll is not
> there. So the following line, which looks like it's putting a strong key on
> the assembly, fails.
> 
> Strange thing is that I went into there and ran the command by hand and
> ../../../class/lib/net_2_0/I18N.MidEast.dll was created w/o error!
> 
> So I re-ran the whole compile and had the same issue as above, (error
> applying a strong key to a missing file), but somewhere's else in the code.
> So, there seems to be some kind of non-reproducable error here.
> 
> I got this on 2 different machines, (an ultra 5 and ultra 1), so I don't
> think it's my hardware (although it is old and cranky).
> 
> I'm willing to put some effort into making this work, if someone could point
> me in the correct direction.
> 
> I couldn't find any mention of linux sparc on the mono website.
>   _____
> 
> David Esposito
> Senior Software Engineer
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