[Mono-list] XSP and FreeBSD?

Tom McLaughlin tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:37:28 -0500


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:24 -0600, SigmaX wrote:
> Tom McLaughlin wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 13:37 -0600, SigmaX wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hey; I remember seeing a post recently dealing with the Mono port to 
> >>FreeBSD.  I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a testbed server, with 
> >>intentions of switching my current Mandrake server to FreeBSD in the 
> >>near future.  I'm new to BSD in general.
> >>
> >>Anyway, is there an XSP/Mod_mono port to FreeBSD? And, if so, how do I 
> >>go about getting it?  From what I can tell it's not in the Mono-1.0.5 
> >>port itself.
> >>        Thanx,
> >>            SigmaX
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >My last email to you must've gotten bounced.  FreeBSD ports for XSP and
> >mod_mono is here:
> >
> >http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/cvs/cvsbrowse.php/bsd-sharp/FreeBSD-ports/www/
> >
> >XSP doesn't work on FreeBSD as mono itself crashes directly on a page
> >request.  Your best bet for seeing XSP work is on FreeBSD-current but
> >that is not production ready by any means.  Hopefully by 5.4 (or 5.5
> >depending on when I finally get a FreeBSD-current box running and can
> >test XSP on -current) some libpthread fixes will be MFC'ed into -stable
> >which will resolve the crashes.
> >
> >Tom
> >  
> >
> I gotcha.  When you say XSP isn't stable yet, does that include mod_mono 
> or just the XSP standalone?
>         Thanx,
>              SigmaX
> 

I haven't tried mod_mono yet but from what I've seen on the Mono lists
people cannot get it to display a page on FreeBSD.  Not really sure
where the problem is though but I'm guessing it's related to the XSP
crash.  Thanks.

Tom

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