[Mono-list] Installing XSP on FreeBSD 4.7

Osmany Guirola Cruz osmany.guirola@cigb.edu.cu
Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:32:15 -0400


I have FreeBSD 4.10 STABLE and I STILL HAVE PROBLEM WITH XSP*.*
i think we have to wait for 5.0 STABLE :-( 


On Sunday 08 August 2004 23:43, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
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> On Sunday 08 August 2004 02:17 pm, Ken Swift wrote:
> > Has anyone had any luck installing XSP 1.0 on FreeBSD?  It configures
> > fine for me, but when I got to make "gmake" it hangs.  I am assuming
> > that this is the same threading problem that was addressed in some port
> > patches over the past few months.  Has anyone made a port of XSP?  I am
> > excited about being able to continue my C# ASP.NET development away from
> > the office and away from Microsoft.  This is more of a curosity
> > question...why do I have to install XSP, if I am going to be using the
> > mod_mono Apache module?
> >
> > Thanks in advance -- Ken
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> Since you're building on 4.7 (and the only supported version of -STABLE is
> 4.10) your basic problem is that mono is not going to work.  I strongly
> recommend that you follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING and update
> your system to at least 4.10-STABLE.  There is absolutely no good reason to
> stay with 4.7, and 4.10 is a considerable improvement in many respects.
>
> Also, it is policy (see the "Porter's Handbook") that the only supported
> versions of FreeBSD for ports are the most recent -STABLE and -CURRENT.
> Support for obsolete versions of FreeBSD is simply beyond the means of most
> maintainers (it's difficult enough for me with -STABLE and -CURRENT--I'd
> need a dozen separate systems to debug each and every port I maintain back
> to the first version of FreeBSD I used (4.0).
>
> As to porting XSP and mod_mono to FreeBSD--that is in the works.  I'm not
> very productive right now as I'm in the throws of relocating to a new job
> in a different part of the country.  But it is high on my list of
> priorities.
>
> jmc
>
> FreeBSD Maintainer for lang/mono and x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp (and a bunch of
> other ports too).
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