[Pkg-mono-devel] ANNOUNCE: Mono goes arm

[Dave Beckett]

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Mirco Bauer wrote:
> Hi Mono lovers/maintainers/users,
> 
> I like to announce that Mono 1.1.13.2 in Debian is now built [0] for the
> ARM architecture [1]. If you maintain a package that needs to track
> "Mono Architectures" please update your list to: i386 powerpc amd64 ia64
> arm.
> If your package targets just Mono (Mono based application/library)
> please use arch "any" instead of listing each arch, the
> build-deps/autobuilders will do the work for you then.

I doubt I'll ever do use 'any' since not all of those architectures are
stable, plus the autobuilders still try to build on architectures that
are not supported and the Not-For-Us lists are a joke.

arm's no use to me right now as nant seg faults inside /usr/bin/mono on
arm, and that's used to build ikvm, nunit and probably others.

Here's a failure from ikvm on arm:

nant -v clean

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException:
mscorlib.resources, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089 : mscorlib.resources,
Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
in <0x00000> <unknown method>
in <0x00000> <unknown method>

http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ikvm&ver=0.24.0.1-1&arch=arm&stamp=1138961982&file=log&as=raw

Although tangentally, the build state of ikvm is so bad, i'm considering
making it i386 and amd64 only.

> We are also watching at the support for s390 and armeb. But the lack of
> s390 porting work seems destroy this plans. The mono-jit for s390 is not
> activily maintained upstream it seems... with armeb we will see as soon
> some autobuilder will fetch it.
> 
> [0] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=mono&ver=1.1.13.2-1&arch=arm&stamp=1138914220&file=log&as=raw
> [1] http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
> 
> PS: btw I CC everyone that maintains a architecture specific package
> that depends on mono-classlib-1.0, if your package is actually arch any,
> sorry for the noise :)

Dave

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