[Mono-dev] Building mono on AIX powerpc

[Andreas Färber]

Hi,

Am 27.07.2008 um 01:13 schrieb Jacob Gladish:

> There are probably other things that aren't going to work like the  
> stuff in System.Net.NetworkInformation. Some of these classes  
> access /proc and /sys to fetch network interface statistics.

You're certainly right. However, Mac OS X for one doesn't have them  
either, so I'd hope these sort of things to be covered by unit tests.

> Obviously not a big deal if you're not using those classes, but I  
> wouldn't count on everything in the standard namespaces to just work.

Once the runtime were working correctly, those should by comparison be  
relatively easy to fix on an as-needed basis.

The archived messages however could indicate that there are ABI  
differences, in addition to the usual header and compiler option  
differences. But an Internet search shows AIX has a 32-bit userland,  
so at least it'll not depend on the incomplete ppc64 port.

Andreas