[Mono-dev] The Bleeding Edge of SuSE is not Mono-friendly

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I've discovered that many of my problems with building and running Mono were 
> related to having the SuSE bleeding edge bits for Gnome installed.  After the 
> lattest rpms were uploaded to the ftp server (and installed here) things 
> really fell apart due to inconsistent Cairo version dependencies.  I rolled 
> back to the stock SuSE 9.3 bits and things are going much better.

This is probably caused by a non-perfect configure script and our own
copy of Cairo.  We are working on a solution, but it might take a few
weeks.