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

[John Merryweather Cooper]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:22:50PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:49:30 -0700, John Merryweather Cooper  
> <johnmary at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:27:33PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>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.  :(
> <snip>
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that new 0.6.1 now support Gtk# 0.98 and Mono  
> 1.0 (beta3). I got this info from the gnomefiles.org :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> 
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> 

Ah!  Correction, the release candidates are lang/mono 0.97 and
x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp 0.99.  Sigh, back to the drawing board
--most of the patches need to be "rubbed" thoroughly.  :)

jmc