[Mono-dev] Recent xbuild fixes causing issues with finding mcs

[Michael Franz]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Franz, please check if your custom built version of the "mono"
> binary is in the path during the rest of the build, or that code Michael
> Hutchinson pointed out will fail...
>
> Adding the bin directory of my Mono installation to the PATH does solve
the problem.  I can work with this, it is just a change in the usage.

> Hope it helps,
>
> Rafael Teixeira
> O..:.)oooo
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Michael Hutchinson <
> m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No, this is not the same as launching exe files directly from the OS
>> using binfmt-misc.
>>
>> If you launch an exe file *from Mono's implementation of
>> Process.Start*, Mono will detect managed executables and run them with
>> Mono automatically.
>>
>> https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mono/io-layer/processes.c#L808
>>
>> On 16 February 2014 09:00, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:34 AM, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <
>> knocte at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 16/02/14 10:15, Michael Hutchinson wrote:
>> >> > ... which automatically executes exe
>> >> > files using Mono.
>> >>
>> >> Are you sure that statement applies to all distros? I read somewhere
>> >> some time ago that the only distro so far that implemented the ability
>> >> to run .exe files automatically by calling mono under the hood was
>> >> Debian (and derivatives), by installing some system hook by default
>> when
>> >> mono packages are installed.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe Michael Franz is not using Debian? Or maybe that hook doesn't
>> work
>> >> for him because he's using a custom mono install (instead of debian
>> >> packages)?
>> >
>> > I am using CentOS 6.5 with a locally built Mono installation.
>> >
>> > I have read about how you can modify the kernel to understand launching
>> Mono
>> > applications -
>> http://www.mono-project.com/Guide:Running_Mono_Applications -
>> > this was probably after I ran into this problem.  If this has become a
>> > requirement to use Mono for development it should probably be documented
>> > somewhere.
>> >
>> >
>> >>
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