Hi, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > 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 ? I haven't had much trouble building nant or boo on i386. I got a report a few weeks ago regarding issues with building nant on amd64, which sounded like the old issues it use to have. I forwarded the email to ports@ suggesting that it be marked as broken again on amd64 and asking for additional guidance/feedback but I didn't receive any responses.
Thanks, Ryan > > -- > Antoine >
