[Mono-list] Bootstrapping CVS mono and mcs

[Ravi Pratap M]

> Building the class libraries on linux is currectly a bit of a black art
> sue to the dependancies between the compiler and the runtime.
> 
> You'll need to do the following steps:
> 
> - Install a working version of mono (I'll refer to this as the
> 'install')
> - Get the CVS sources for mcs and mono (I'll refer to these as 'CVS mcs'
> and 'CVS mono')
> - build the CVS mcs.exe and the CVS corlib.dll and copy these to your
> install directory (bin & lib)
> - build CVS mono and copy the bits over your install
> - now build the rest of the CVS class libs and copy them over your
> install


	Thanks a lot for the clear instructions, Piers. I think it would really
help if this goes onto the website somewhere clear as crystal instead of
just lying around in our mail archives :-)



	Regards,

		Ravi