[Mono-dev] Building a Mono RPM

[Marcel Hellwig]

On 27.08.2013 19:14, Chris Tacke wrote:
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> Well that seems to have been a huge waste of time.  I built up a
> Fedora 18 machine, installed all of the packages necessary for
> building, pulled the source for mono, did a configure, make and a make
> install.  All went fine.
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> I then tried to use rpmbuild and again, I get the following error
> (just like I did on Ubuntu):
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> Error: line 51: Unknown tag: Recommends: libgdiplus0 >= 2.6
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At first, recommand is not part of the original spec file under linux.
Second libgdiplus0 is libgdiplus under fedora. You can see my bug-report
here. Quiete old, but still up to date. I also wrote a script (2nd post)
for doing your requested thing in a bit ugly way.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875493
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> At this point, should I assume that deploying Mono is best done with a
> tarball instead?
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> -Chris
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