[Mono-dev] Running autogen.sh from outside of source tree?

[Miguel de Icaza]

Well, Mono is not really well behaved when it comes to builds with srcdir
!= builddir.

There is really no support for this for the managed code (all code under
mono/mcs).


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm.
>
> I don't see any mention of NOCONFIGURE=1 in README.md.
>
> If it were possible to run autogen.sh from outside of tree it would
> make building under Yocto a little bit cleaner. Yocto is very
> particular about separating source from build from installed files so
> they can automate package generation, check for misbehaving packages
> etc.
>
> What is interesting is that a good portion of autogen.sh is ok with
> being run out of the source directory.
>
> Is it feasible to continue to improve autogen.sh to be run from
> outside of the source directory? If so, I can hack on it a bit
> tomorrow and see how I make out.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at xamarin.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > To build Mono with a different prefix, you need to use a tarball package,
> > that has all of the bits that are not typically checked into git.
> >
> > That said, if you want to use git, you need to at least run this:
> >
> > NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh
> >
> > On the directory where you did your checkout, and then you can run
> configure
> > from a separate directory.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to build mono under Yocto. Recently (so I've heard) there
> >> were some changes such that the autotools scripts are being run from
> >> outside of the source tree.
> >>
> >> I presume this is something like:
> >>
> >> cd mono
> >> mkdir monobuild
> >> cd monobuild
> >> ../autogen.sh
> >>
> >>
> >> [cmorgan at localhost monobuild]$ ../autogen.sh
> >> --prefix=/home/cmorgan/mono-prefix
> >> grep: configure.in: No such file or directory
> >> ../autogen.sh: line 125: mono/mini/Makefile.am: No such file or
> directory
> >> ../autogen.sh: line 126: mono/metadata/Makefile.am: No such file or
> >> directory
> >> Running aclocal -I m4 -I .  ...
> >> aclocal: error: 'configure.ac' is required
> >>
> >> **Error**: aclocal failed. This may mean that you have not
> >> installed all of the packages you need, or you may need to
> >> set ACLOCAL_FLAGS to include "-I $prefix/share/aclocal"
> >> for the prefix where you installed the packages whose
> >> macros were not found
> >>
> >>
> >> This doesn't appear to work because several things in autogen.sh
> >> assume that the files are present in the current working directory.
> >> Some other steps however do use $srcdir.
> >>
> >> My question is whether it seems like a reasonable idea to correct
> >> autogen.sh to remove the assumption that builddir == sourcedir. If so
> >> then I'll go down this route and send a patch. If not then I'll use a
> >> Yocto work around for projects that don't/can't support doing that.
> >> I'm not big on papering over issues so I do prefer the first option
> >> but I didn't want to start work if it turns out that it may be a
> >> nearly impossible task.
> >>
> >> Chris
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> >
> >
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