[Mono-list] Mono without binfmt

[Tim Anderson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel at novell.com]
> Sent: 05 December 2007 12:01
> To: Tim Anderson
> Cc: mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Mono without binfmt
> We do not use binfmt in Mono.   We merely document it for some people
> to
> use, but internally we stay clear of it (as it is not portable to
> MacOS,
> Solaris and other Unices).
> 
> I believe the issue is that the tool pkg-config is not installed,
which
> is what is invoked by the -pkg: command line argument.

Thanks for responding.

You are correct, apologies.

What puzzles me is that in /usr/lib/cli there is a single file:

binfmt-detector-cli

This may be to do with the way Debian has packaged mono? Will it cause
problems, given that binfmt is not going to work?

TIm