[Mono-dev] Problem with PPC/PPC64 and disabling builds against the static libs

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> The package I've just built for Fedora does this (links /usr/bin/mono against
> the static libmono.a and then removes the static libraries prior to finishing
> the package).  The concern I have with this strategy long-term is that programs
> wanting to embed the mono runtime will be linking against the dynamic
> libmono.so.  If this is causing issues for /usr/bin/mono and we don't know what
> the trigger is, isn't this a potential problem for them as well?
> 

A little poking looks like I was right about this problem :-(

On ppc, with the statically compiled mono-2.4 final, trying to use the embedding
samples yields this:

  cd mono-2.4/samples/embed
  gcc -o teste teste.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs mono` -lm
  mcs test.cs
  ./teste test.exe
  Segmentation fault

And:
  cd mono-2.4/samples/embed
  gcc -Wall -o test-invoke test-invoke.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs mono` -lm
  mcs invoke.cs
  ./test-invoke invoke.exe
  Segmentation fault

-Toshio