[Mono-dev] Fwd: Ideas for Mono on Windows

Jonathan Pryor jonpryor at vt.edu
Fri Jan 23 15:39:02 EST 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:33 -0600, Jonathan Pobst wrote:
> > 3) the build process hang when building mono/docs, so I looked in the 
> > Makefile of that directory and did a touch on the files it tried to 
> > create (some *.tree and *.zip files). I figured since it's only 
> > documentation it doesn't matter if I have those files or not.
> 
> We probably need a --disable-docs compile flag.  Unless I am mistaken, 
> there is no reason for 99% of people to build the documentation on every 
> compile.

Docs shouldn't get built on every compile.  Docs should only be built
once, until the .tree/.zip files are created.

Perhaps we should wrap doc creation within an `ifeq($(PLATFORM),linux)`
block so that docs are only built on Linux, at least until that mono bug
is fixed...

 - Jon




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