[Mono-list] make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Dick Porter dick@ximian.com
Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:47:44 +0100


On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:56:59AM +0300, Lawrence Pit wrote:
> thanks, it works.
> 
> > You need to checkout mcs from cvs and build mcs.  This is because the
> > mono-build-w32.sh script only builds the mono runtime; it does not
> > checkout and build the mcs C# compiler and libraries.
> 
> is there a particular reason for this?
> 
> the mono runtime builds alright, but it doesn't run without the mcs
> libraries, so why not add the statements to checkout and build mcs in the
> mono-build-w32.sh script?

Because

1) the mcs dir builds without any trouble (no dependencies or sacrificial
chickens required).

2) the mcs dir currently does not build on linux, so the two scripts will
be doing different tasks on different platforms.

- Dick