On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 09:50:59PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Mono is broken. > > On amd64, lang/mono itself sometimes crashes during the build. > (It's completely unbuildable with MALLOC_OPTIONS=S.) Sometimes, > x11/mono-gtk2 crashes. devel/nant frequently gets stuck. lang/boo > frequently gets stuck. > > I'm tired of manually retrying builds until this crap finally > packages. Does anybody actually use mono-based packages? Do they > even run? sthen@ is also struggling to get mono built on i386. > > Somebody needs to step up and fix mono, or I'm going to push for > marking all of this stuff as BROKEN and ripping its tentacles out > of Gnome.
GNOME does not care; it does not depend on mono. FWIW yes I do use mono based apps daily and it works fine for me (but I use pkg, I never build from ports). Did you talk to maintainer ? -- Antoine
