[Mono-devel-list] Re: Mono 1.1.4 - will build but won't install

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Matt Philmon <mattisking at pobox.com> writes:

> I didn't build from cvs, so I actually used ./configure, but yes, I did:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
> sudo make install
>
> In Ubuntu, the root account is disabled so generally we always use
> sudo. However, for other reasons I enabled the root account. So, logging
> into root (with su), I also tried "make install" and got the same error.
>
> ... which is quite odd now that I think about it... Why would it be
> complaining about /usr/local/lib when I configured using /usr? If it was
> going to complain, you'd think it would complain about
> /usr/lib. Weird. I originally tried configuring to usr/local/ but had
> some weird build errors so I redownloaded the source from
> mono-project.com/downloads and then built against /usr and it built
> without any problems.

You probably ran

  ./configure
  make

and then, suddenly decided to change the prefix and ran

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make
  make install

If the library didn't change between the two invocations of configure,
the old prefix will be stored in the .la file, and will lead to this
error.

- Hari