[MonoDevelop] [BUG] Compiler flag `/noconfig' causes compilation failure on Ubuntu 9.04

[Chris Howie]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Allan Caffee <allan.caffee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mono complains that it cannot find the
> System.Collections.Generic.Stack when I run compilation from within
> monodevelop.  I found this to be caused by `/noconfig' flag passed to
> gmcs I was only able to compile after adding the `/noconfig-' flag in
> the "additional arguments" field.  The bug shows up in version 2.0 of
> Monodevelop on Ubuntu 9.04.  I haven't actually tried the trunk
> version but I noticed that the flag is still being unconditionally
> added to compilation commands in
> main/src/addins/CSharpBinding/CSharpBindingCompilerManager.cs.  Is
> there some reason that this argument needs to be here?

/noconfig is added so that the exact references you specify are used,
otherwise gmcs assumes a few, like System.  The problem is that you
are (presumably) referencing corlib, but not System, where this class
lives.  Adding this reference in MD should solve the problem.

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