[mono-vb] mono-basic not building under Solaris in recent mono-2-6 branch revisions

[Francis A. Bausch]

This is the heart of the Solaris Sparc error message:

make[3]: Entering directory `/Desktop/dev/mono-2-6/mono-basic/tools/extract-source'
MONO_PATH="../../class/lib/bootstrap:$MONO_PATH" mono  --debug  ../../class/lib/bootstrap/vbnc.exe    -debug -r:System.Xml.dll -noconfig -define:_MYTYPE=\"Empty\" -target:exe -out:extract-source.exe   @extract-source.exe.sources
GC Warning: Large stack limit(134217728): only scanning 8 MB

(../../class/lib/bootstrap/vbnc.exe:26856): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_utf16_to_utf8: assertion `str != NULL' failed
Stacktrace:

  at vbnc.CommandLine.SetOption (string,string) [0x00ed9] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/CommandLine.vb:1106
  at vbnc.CommandLine.SetOption (string,string) [0x00002] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/CommandLine.vb:898
  at vbnc.CommandLine.ParseInternal (string[]) [0x00289] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/CommandLine.vb:1189
  at vbnc.CommandLine.Parse (string[]) [0x00002] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/CommandLine.vb:792
  at vbnc.Compiler.Compile (string[]) [0x00000] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/Compiler.vb:270
  at vbnc.Main.Main (string[]) [0x0000f] in /mono/main/git/mono-basic-master/vbnc/vbnc/source/General/Main.vb:55
  at (wrapper runtime-invoke) <Module>.runtime_invoke_int_object (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <IL 0x00048, 0xffffffff> Abort - core dumped



-----Original Message-----
From: quandary [mailto:quandary82 at hailmail.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:46 PM
To: Francis A. Bausch
Cc: mono-vb at lists.ximian.com
Subject: Re: [mono-vb] mono-basic not building under Solaris in recent mono-2-6 branch revisions

What problems exactly ? Missing dependencies ?
Do you get a specific error message ?

On 03/12/2010 06:49 PM, francis bausch wrote:
> i am seeing (two different) problems in building mono-basic under Solarisx86
> and Solaris Sparc in the recent mono-2-6 branch revisions.  It this a
> problem to be reported as a mono problem instead of a mono-basic problem?
>