[Mono-dev] Right MCS in Path, Configure Gets Wrong MCS

[stephen at covidimus.net]

I.m trying to build gtk-sharp from SVN.  I have a stable mono installation in /usr, but I also have a bleeding-edge installation at /home/stephen/bin/mono-svn.  I want to use the mcs found there (/home/stephen/bin/mono-svn/bin/mcs) b/c I plan to install gtk-sharp there, and the .stable. compiler in /usr is much older.

 

I have my PATH set up for my user account so that the newer mono is the one that should be seen.  I.e.,

`which mcs` returns the expected /home/stephen/bin/mono-svn/bin/mcs.

 

When I run ./bootstrap-2.4 --prefix=/home/stephen/bin/mono-svn/, however, I get the following summary after configure runs:

 

Configuration summary

 

   * Installation prefix = /home/stephen/bin/mono-svn/

   * C# compiler: /usr/bin/mcs

...

 

Notice that it picked up the compiler in /usr/bin/mcs, even though that.s not the one in my PATH.  I checked ./configure .help, but don.t see an option to force the compiler to use a certain mcs (though I have been known to suffer from temporary blindness.)  How can I force configure to use the right mcs?