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Nicholas,
Thanks for the pointer. Have had a quick look (as in 30 mins of
looking and reading) and have a lot to learn about autoconf before
much makes sense to me. What the heck is shamrock?
Leaves me wondering alas if all the Banshee developers and
contributors are old hats at it, have had the dev environments and
build streams set up for long time (pre Mono 2!) and if not, how
noobs since then have actually installed and got running with a
working build? I may hack around as time permits, but time is
scant alas, and the main driver that motivates me perhaps is
learning more about autoconf and its ilk as a general background
skill.
Regards,
Bernd.
Nicholas Little via banshee-list wrote:
Hi Bernd,
That's some nice shell foo. In configure.ac you'll find:
SHAMROCK_CHECK_MONO_2_0_GAC_ASSEMBLIES([
Mono.Posix
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib
])
You'll probably have to do some hacking around in the build subtree,
which contains all the macros used by autotools, in order to get it to
work - specifically take a look at
https://github.com/GNOME/banshee/blob/master/build/m4/shamrock/mono.m4
We could probably look at updating some of these dependencies as I
think some distributions are dropping Banshee through build
difficulties - Gentoo appears to be anyway so feel free to share a
patch when you get up and running.
Good luck.
Yours,
Nicholas
On 29 May 2017 at 01:53, Bernd Wechner <bernd wechner gmail com> wrote:
> Thought I'd try building Banshee again almost 18 months after first effort.
> First efforts failed primarily because Mint was based on a dated release fo
> Ubuntu at the time , but it's up to date now and has been for a while so I
> thought to give it a crack. So I followed the directions here:
>
> http://banshee.fm/download/development/
>
> under Ubuntu. And all is well until I run autogen.sh which bails with:
>
> checking for Mono 2.0 GAC for Mono.Posix.dll... not found
> configure: error: missing required Mono 2.0 assembly: Mono.Posix.dll
> Error: There were errors when running './configure', a step that is required
> to configure banshee
>
> Go figure! I'd have thought that was well covered by all the prerequisites
> listed, and I've installed MonoDevelop and Mono from the package
> mono-complete from the Ubuntu repositories (labelled as Complete mono
> runtime, development tools and all libraries) but no luck. If I "locate
> Mono.Posix" telling results are:
>
> /usr/lib/mono/4.5/Mono.Posix.dll
> /usr/lib/mono/gac/Mono.Posix
> /usr/lib/mono/gac/Mono.Posix/4.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756
> /usr/lib/mono/gac/Mono.Posix/4.0.0.0__0738eb9f132ed756/Mono.Posix.dll
>
> To wit Mono.Posix.dll is installed, but autogen.sh isn't finding it. Perhaps
> some environment variable or other is what it wants, if it's too blind to
> find it alone. What is going on and why (again) is Banshee apparently not so
> simple to build? After all the clear effort that's gone into Ubuntu support
> on that development page and more?
>
> Anyhow:
>
> bash -x autogen.sh
>
> reveals that ./configure is what's bailing. And:
>
> bash -x configure
>
> in turn reveals that this is what's failing:
>
> + test -e /usr/lib/mono/2.0/Mono.Posix.dll -o -e
> /usr/lib/mono/2.0/Mono.Posix.dll
>
> And voila, I have Mono 4.5 not 2.0.
>
> So, that begs the obvious questions:
>
> 1) Does banshee really depend on a dated version of Mono? (a version
> superceded in 2009!)
> 2) Can I install a dated version of Mono? And if so, how?
> 3) Can such a dated version of Mono exist in parallel with the latest
> version without causing hassles elsewhere?
>
> Puzzled, and appreciating any insights.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Bernd.
>
>
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