[Mono-dev] "Installing" mono via copy

[Nikita Tsukanov]

You should install to the _same_ prefix you configured your sources.
./configure script hardcodes some paths based on prefix value and compiled
code will expect to find needed files there.


2013/12/13 "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte at gmail.com>

> /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.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:*mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com
> > [mailto:mono-devel-list-bounces at lists.ximian.com] *On Behalf Of *Nikita
> > Tsukanov
> > *Sent:* Friday, December 13, 2013 1:06 PM
> > *To:* mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> > *Subject:* Re: [Mono-dev] "Installing" mono via copy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>- 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2013/12/13 Chris Tacke <ctacke at opennetcf.com <mailto:
> ctacke at opennetcf.com>>
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     I am successfully building Mono from source under an Ubuntu machine.
> >      That works just fine.
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     What I did was:
> >
> >     - 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
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >     How should I be going about doing an installation like this?  What
> >     am I missing in my process?
> >
> >     -Chris
> >
> >
> >
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