[BUG] Bug in lang/mono and request to rollback x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp to 0.17

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 15:13, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:46:44 -0700, John Merryweather Cooper  
> > <johnmary at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm making progress on getting comms/gfax 0.6.0 to work, but I'm
> > >having some issues with lang/mono and x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp.
> > >
> > >First, lang/mono:
> > >
> > >Using the following command line (for example):
> > >
> > ># mcs -pkg:gnome-sharp something.cs
> > >
> > >causes mcs to core dump with a locking violation in libpthread
> > >on -CURRENT.  Internally, mcs is supposed to be calling
> > >
> > >pkg-config --libs gnome-sharp
> > >
> > >to extract the DLL's that are referenced.  I can work around as
> > >follows:
> > >
> > ># mcs `/usr/local/bin/pkg-config --libs gnome-sharp` something.cs
> > >
> > >But this leads me to the problem with x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp
> > >version 0.93--it's incompatible with comms/gfax.  Moreover,
> > >http://gtk-sharp.sourceforge.net/ lists 0.17 as the present
> > >release version.  Unless there's something out there that
> > >needs 0.93, I think a rollback to 0.17 would be in order--
> > >comms/gfax 0.6.0 compiles fine with it.
> > 
> > gfax is the one that who need to update to get it works with newer  
> > gtk-sharp. The gtk-sharp is now part of Mono and it has been moved to Mono  
> > CVS now. The current release tag is 0.98, so there should be 0.98 tarball  
> > to download at Mono's website.
> > 
> > Check gtk-sharp's website said:
> > ============================================
> > The project is closely associated with the Mono project.  Development is  
> > proceeding in the Mono CVS repository.  The CVS Repository can be browsed  
> > on the web[1].
> > 
> > [1] http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/gtk-sharp/?cvsroot=mono
> > ============================================
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> > 
> > >jmc
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Well, I'll just have to wait for the author to produce a new release.  :(
> 
> But you didn't address the problems lang/mono is having on its command
> line.  In addition to the core dump that results from using the
> -pkg: flag, the -r: flag no longer works as intended.  Previously, e.g.,
> -r:gtk-sharp would reference the gtk-sharp assembly without an absolute
> path.  Now, lang/mono fails to reference an assembly without an absolute
> path.

Note: we don't maintain mono or gtk-sharp anymore.  If you'd like to
take those over, please, be my guest.  We really need someone that can
wrangle these mono bugs.

Joe

> 
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