[Mono-list] Building from CVS: gmcs.exe not found

[Peter Wainwright]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 17:30, Andrew Arnott wrote:
> I downloaded CVS yesterday, and updated it this morning.  I ran from
> the cvs\mono directory:
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> ./autogen.sh =96prefix=3D/usr
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> ./make fullbuild
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(1) -prefix should be --prefix, and ./make should be make
(2) AFAIK, the generics compiler gmcs is not built by
default. You need to do

./autogen.sh --prefix=3D/usr --with-preview=3Dyes
make bootstrap
make install

[ the last two steps are equivalent to "make fullbuild",
which is deprecated ].

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> My mono files are found in /usr/bin/mono, etc.  So I believe the
> prefix above is correct.  But the build fails with the error below.=20
> It appears that the gmcs.exe file is being looked for in the /
> directory rather than /usr/bin/. =20
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> make[3]: Entering directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime'
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> if test -f ../../mcs/gmcs/gmcs.exe; then f=3D../../mcs/gmcs/gmcs.exe;
> else f=3D/gmcs.exe; fi; \
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> echo "cp -f $f ."; \
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> cp -f $f .
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> cp -f /gmcs.exe .
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> cp: cannot stat `/gmcs.exe': No such file or directory
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> make[3]: *** [gmcs.exe] Error 1
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> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime'
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> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime'
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> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono'
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> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> biscuit:~/cvs/mono # locate gmcs.exe
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> /usr/bin/gmcs.exe
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> /usr/lib/mono/2.0/gmcs.exe
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> biscuit:~/cvs/mono #
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> I created a symbolic link to it in the / directory, and got passed
> that error.  Then the build crashed with this error:
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> cp -f ../../../mcs/class/lib/default/System.Web.Services.dll .
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> cp -f ../../../mcs/class/lib/default/System.Windows.Forms.dll .
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> cp -f ../../../mcs/class/lib/default/System.Xml.dll .
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> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime/net_1_1'
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> Making all in net_2_0
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> make[3]: Entering directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime/net_2_0'
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> cp -f ../../../mcs/class/lib/net_2_0/mscorlib.dll .
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> cp: cannot stat `../../../mcs/class/lib/net_2_0/mscorlib.dll': No such
> file or directory
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> make[3]: *** [mscorlib.dll] Error 1
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> make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime/net_2_0'
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> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono/runtime'
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> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
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> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/cvs/mono'
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> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> I=92ve never managed to get a make fullbuild to work with any snapshot,
> so I may have environment variables that need to be initialized?  I
> don=92t know.   But any help would be appreciated.
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Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog1.demon.co.uk>