[oe] Mono

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
>> -            file://mono-cross-compilation-for-amd64.patch;patch=1 \
>> +#            file://mono-cross-compilation-for-amd64.patch;patch=1 \
>
> That patch (mono-cross-compilation-for-amd64) does look pretty bogus.
> The file header says:
>
>        "This is a workaround for bug 515050
>        https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515050#c2
>
>        Real fix is something else which did not make into 2.4.2
>        http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2009-June/151386.html
>        http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-patches/2009-June/151387.html
>
>        but we are ok with workaround its safe."

that was the remarks from the threads which discussed the above bug. I
forgot to include the complete reference.
I was merely going by the comments in the thread.
cbrake had a locally disable this patch and tested but did not yet commit it.

>
> ... but it's hard to see how forcing MONO_ARCH_SUPPORT_SIMD_INTRINSICS
> unconditionally really counts as "safe": this seems almost certain to
> break on any target that doesn't actually have that support.  If this
> patch were moved to SRC_URI_append_amd64 then it'd probably be ok, but
> the patches from those other two URLs look like a better solution.
>
> p.
>
>
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