R: mono problem

[Cliff Brake]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Marco Cane <mca at apss.it> wrote:
>
> hi Cliff, thanks for your answer; I tried to build mono 1.9.1,
> completely outside OE, downloading source from mono-project. Since I'm
> using a x86 platform, I thought I could transfer files under "install"
> directory on my device to try mono, but also in this case, system loops
> forever.
> I will try with mono 2, but I think there are some problems on some
> libraries. Here is my base task (based on task-boot.bb), I'm using
> distro angstrom-2007.1.

You might want to try angstrom-2008.1 -- 2007.1 is getting a bit old.

> p.s. when you say "open a dev shell" you are meaning I should complete
> the build outside OE environment, launching make from
> OE/tmp/work.../mono-x.y.z, right?

Actually:

bitbake -c devshell <package>

The method you mentioned will also work.

Thanks,
Cliff

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