[MonoDevelop] Problems building MonoDevelop from tarball since tag 4.2.4

[Timotheus Pokorra]

Hello Andres,

thanks for the suggestion!

I have now changed my patch, which was applied to the tarball, so that
it can be applied to git master.

I created two pull requests on github.

Thanks,
   Timotheus

On 27 May 2014 13:54, Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Timotheus,
>
> The best way for the MD team to review your patches is to propose them in
> the form of pull requests in github.
>
> As a recommendation, open one pull request per issue you find, so you can
> explain each change independently (in the commit message), and each of the
> changes can be merged separately (otherwise, if you add all changes in the
> same pull request, it may get longer to review).
>
>
>
> On 27/05/14 07:55, Timotheus Pokorra wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I have now prepared a "dirty" patch, that will allow to build from a
>> unmodified tarball, that I can build with `make dist` on the git
>> branch.
>>
>> Please have a look here:
>>
>> https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono/blob/master/monodevelop-opt/scripts.patch
>>
>> I guess some directories and files need to be added to the tarball
>> properly:
>> Some of the missing test directories, the file
>> src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/BuildVariables.cs.in, the file
>> src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/gtkrc (and the variants for win32 and mac as
>> well), and the file version.config needs to be included.
>> Still some paths are different in the tarball and the git checkout.
>>
>> At least now I am able to build the version 4.2.5 again for the
>> various distributions:
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:tpokorra:mono/monodevelop
>> and
>>
>> http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Atpokorra%3Amono&package=monodevelop-opt
>>
>> Please let me know what you think how to fix the situation properly!
>>
>> Timotheus
>>
>> On 24 May 2014 22:28, yannick inizan <inizan.yannick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> same error when you build a debin package :/
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-05-24 21:45 GMT+02:00 Timotheus Pokorra
>>> <timotheus.pokorra at solidcharity.com>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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