[Mono-dev] "Installing" mono via copy

["Andrés G. Aragoneses"]

/usr/local is the default prefix if you don't supply one. This is
normally the standard in most open source projects and the motivation of
it is not to conflict with software installed by packages (which goes to
/usr instead).

But given that you're in an embedded system I would just use the /usr
prefix to prevent incompatibilities that normally arise when integrating
software between /usr and /usr/local

So to answer your question: yes, you still need to specify the prefix at
configure time, but define a DESTDIR at installation time.

Maybe this example script can clear any more doubts you have (it's used
to create .deb packages):

https://github.com/7digital/7digital-mono/blob/master/build-mono-package.bash

On 13/12/13 20:08, Chris Tacke wrote:
> So if I make install DESTDIR /path/to/temp do I still need to install on
> the target at /usr/local (te default prefix), or will “anywhere” work? 
> I assume the former, but am trying to understand.
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> -Chris
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>>>- set a custom prefix (and other stuff) during configure
> That's the problem. It tries to look for mscorlib at
> $prefix/lib/mono/blablablah instead of /usr/lib. Instead of using custom
> prefix just configure it with normal (i. e. /usr) and use make install
> DESTDIR=/path/to/temp/dir. It will install all files to that directory,
> and you'll be able to create your tarball.
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> 2013/12/13 Chris Tacke <ctacke at opennetcf.com <mailto:ctacke at opennetcf.com>>
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>     I have an embedded Linux platform on which I need to install Mono.
>      The platform does not have any installer tools like apt or
>     whatever.  I have to custom build Mono for the platform for a
>     variety of reasons.
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>     I am successfully building Mono from source under an Ubuntu machine.
>      That works just fine.
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>     The problem I'm now facing is how to "distribute" the resulting
>     build.  Due to size contraints, I've compiled only the 4.5 stuff,
>     plus I've pulled out a variety of things like System.Drawing,  all
>     of the WinForms stuff, etc.  I've also stripped the binaries.
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>     What I did was:
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>     - set a custom prefix (and other stuff) during configure
>     - make & make install.
>     - Go into the install folder and trim out stuff I don't need and
>     strip binaries
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>     So now I have a set of folders that contain Mono.  My hope was that
>     I could tar these up, copy that to the destination, untar it in the
>     /usr directory so that the mono bin files end up in /usr/bin, the
>     mono lib files end up in /usr/lib etc.
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>     Doing this I success if I do a mono -V.  I get version info.
>      However, if I try to actually run a mono app, it complains about
>     not finding mscorlib.dll.  It's looking in the path where I set the
>     prefix back on the build machine.
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>     How should I be going about doing an installation like this?  What
>     am I missing in my process?
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>     -Chris
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