[MonoDevelop] Problems building MonoDevelop from tarball since tag 4.2.4

[Timotheus Pokorra]

Hello list,

Since February 7 2014, when a lot of changes where committed for the
build system, I think building from a tarball is not possible anymore.

I filed a bug a while ago: https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18883

The problem is that the build requires a script for configuration.
This script actually checks with git for the version:
https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/blob/monodevelop-4.2.4-branch/scripts/configure.cs#L163

This does not make sense when building from a tarball, since there is
no git. The scripts directory is not included in the tarball anyway.

If I comment the 4 lines in the file Makefile.am
https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/blob/monodevelop-4.2.4-branch/main/Makefile.am#L26,
I get further, but then I get into trouble later when
src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/BuildVariables.gen.exe fails.

By the way, somehow the build also has problems with non existing
csproj files tests/TestRunner/TestRunner.csproj,
src/core/MonoDevelop.TextEditor.Tests/MonoDevelop.TextEditor.Tests.csproj
and tests/Ide.Tests/Ide.Tests.csproj

Any ideas how to fix all this?

Thanks,
  Timotheus