[MonoDevelop] Recent build not reflected in Help-About

[Matt Calder]

In case it helps anyone else, I solved this. The issue was the way my
install script was cloning monodevelop:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git

that "--depth=1" is bad, removing it made everything work. No idea why the
initial make install did not actually install. Lesson is, check the
Help::About after building and installing to confirm that the new build
actually installed. If it didn't, re-clone (correctly!) and re-build.

Matt


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Matt Calder <mvcalder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Over the course of the day I noticed strange errors that led me to believe
> that either the build or the install was bad (or both). So I deleted and
> recloned monodevelop from git and now it doesn't build at all:
>
> git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git
> cd monodevelop
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
> make
>  ... Output of git submodule update, then ...
> Making all in external
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/calder/tmp/monodevelop/main/external'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/calder/tmp/monodevelop/main/external'
> Making all in .
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/calder/tmp/monodevelop/main'
> git failed
> make[2]: *** [build/bin/buildinfo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/calder/tmp/monodevelop/main'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/calder/tmp/monodevelop/main'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> This is an Ubuntu 12.04 system. I build MD once or twice a month so this
> appears to be a new error.
>
> Matt
>
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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Matt Calder <mvcalder at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just rebuilt MD from git, and installed. Everything looks good:
>>
>> New executable:
>>
>> calder at pharos:~/tmp/monodevelop$ ls -l /usr/bin/monodevelop
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 744 Feb 17 11:15 /usr/bin/monodevelop
>>
>> Similarly all the files in /usr/lib/monodevelop look new.
>>
>> But when I run MD (directly from a shell: /usr/bin/monodevelop) and look
>> at Help-About-Details, it says the build date is from last month:
>>
>> Build Information
>> Git revision: 3682ebf813ba20d8e14392101c6b455b4a77071e
>> Build date: 2014-01-22 14:32:32+0000
>>
>> Which is the last time I build it. Is the information in the Help-About
>> section wrong?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
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