Making and Installing Mono 0.30.1 on FreeBSD 5.1

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:47, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:54, Joseph A. Golkosky wrote:
> 
> > mono-0.30.1 is marked as broken: Unknown component pkgconfig.
> > 
> > What is going on here? Is there a way that I can get it to work? I can get 
> > mono 0.24 working just fine. However, I need to have a more recent version 
> > of mono running on my system as I would like to do a port of mod_mono onto 
> > FreeBSD, and the available sources are only compatible with more recent 
> > versions on mono.
> 
> I've been playing around with it on my 5.2.1 box. Both the supplied GC
> and the external boehmgc fail to work. A trivial hello world program
> works, but nothing more complicated than that. I'm not sure why, the
> problem is in misc.c, but it's not easy to debug. Seems like an endless
> recursion in the garbage collector and/or stack corruption. If you want
> to give debugging a go you can try this:

Yes, that's exactly right.  There is an endless recursion bug.  Note: if
I increase thread stack size to 512 MB, I can eventually get programs to
run, but they are unbelievably slow, and this is not a solution by any
stretch of the imagination.

> 
> cd /usr/ports/lang/mono ; env CFLAGS="-g" STRIP="" make install (don't
> clean)
> cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk-sharp; make build
> gdb `which mono` $WRKSRC/parser/mono.core
> 
> Let the fun begin, as the offending line is '{' :-)

I believe the stack is being corrupted big-time.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
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