[Mono-list] build of mono 1.1.7 & 1.1.8.2 fails on Solaris: failure to compile mcs

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> 1. cmp shows no difference between class/lib/monolite/mcs.exe (part of the
> distribution) and the newly made class/lib/basic/mcs.exe (what is supposed
> to be the newly made mcs.exe) (The path references are relative to the mcs
> subdirectory.)

This is strange, since the executables encode a GUID which should be
different on every build.

> 2. file class/lib/basic/mcs.exe indicates: data. Even for an incorrectly
> built binary object file indicates something like: "_binary_name_: ELF
> 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped" on a
> sparc system.

Maybe you are comparing to /usr/ccs/bin/mcs which is a Solaris command?

Or somehow the build system got that binary?

Miguel