[Mono-dev] Building from Source Fails with mcs: Command not found

[Alexander Köplinger]

build.exe is just managed code, so my guess is something is wrong with the Mono runtime. 
You can run the runtime tests ("make check" in the mono/mono folder) and see if they pass.
 
> Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 04:26:50 -0700
> From: chaselton at gmail.com
> To: mono-devel-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Building from Source Fails with mcs: Command not	found
> 
> Is the issue with something built before build.exe attempts to run, 
> something wrong with build.exe or with build.exe on android?
> 
> 
> akoeplinger wrote
> > The basic.exe in monolite is mcs. I think you're heading down the wrong
> > path, judging from your log it tries a system-wide mcs first (as expected)
> > and then falls back to monolite because Mono isn't installed.
> > Invoking monolite's basic.exe fails though with "Illegal instruction",
> > which points to some runtime issue.
> >  
> > -- Alex
> > 
> >> Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 03:38:02 -0700
> >> From: 
> 
> > chaselton@
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> > mono-devel-list at .ximian
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> >> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Building from Source Fails with mcs: Command not
> >> found
> >> 
> >> More information:
> >> 
> >> I examined the mcs and mono files in _tmpdir/bin after realizing they
> >> were
> >> created on the fly...they are shell scripts.  The mono script sets up
> >> some
> >> env variables...and does some other stuff I haven't looked to closely at
> >> yet.  The mcs script is this:
> >> 
> >> #! /bin/sh
> >> exec "/bld/mono/mono-4.0.0/runtime/_tmpinst/bin/mono"
> >> "/bld/mono/mono-4.0.0/mcs/class/lib/build/mcs.exe" "$@"
> >> 
> >> That's a space between the shebang and /bin/sh...and the second
> >> directory...mcs/class/lib/build...doesn't exist.  The directory
> >> mcs/class/lib/monolite does...but it doesn't contain mcs.exe...it
> >> contains
> >> build.exe and some other files.
> >> 
> >> Thoughts?  Are the generated scripts incorrect or should monolite include
> >> a
> >> copy of mcs.exe
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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