[mono-packagers] Need help building moonlight 2.4.1

[Jo Shields]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 14:35 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm trying to package moonlight for possible inclusion at RPM Fusion
> but I'm having some issues.
> 
> 1. pkg-config problem:
> 
> I'm currently working on version 2.4.1 moonlight since it's the latest
> stable. It apparently is supposed to work with mono 2.6 but 2.10 is
> what F15 has, hopefully 2.6 is only a minimum.

Sadly it's not a minimum, or even a guideline - it requires the exact
expected version from its own altered 2.6 branch (based on 2.6.1, I
think). The class library build works by doing a full build of the
regular 2.6 class tree, then binary-patching the output to create
Silverlight versions of libraries from the 2.0 versions.

You'll need to bundle the appropriate 2.6 release, and mangle the build
process to handle it.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mono/packages/moon.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=ad433e0bd36d371c070d79bdf992830aecddecaa;hb=HEAD is the makefile used to build the package on Ubuntu - although I've deleted the package since it doesn't support recent Firefox, and seems to be dead upstream.