[Mono-dev] Error while building mono

Raja R Harinath rharinath at novell.com
Fri Sep 30 03:00:21 EDT 2005


Hi,

Rogerio Pereira <rogerio.araujo at gmail.com> writes:

> I removed all binaries previously installed in my system and now
> everytime when i try to compile mono i get this message:
>
> *** The compiler 'mcs' doesn't appear to be usable.
> /bin/sh: dc: command not found
> *** The contents of your 'monolite' directory are out-of-date
> *** You may want to try 'make get-monolite-latest'
> *** The source has version 41, but monolite has version
>
> I tried make get-monolite-latest but with no sucess...

Well, your machine appears to be missing 'dc' (it's an Unix V7 utility,
and is used to convert from hex to int).  I'm working on a patch to
remove that dependency.

- Hari



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