Nigel Taylor: > The last mono I built was 8 Oct on amd64, 9 Oct on i386, didn't work > first time as I recall on amd64, that was using dpb. When I hit a > failure, I just use make, once I have finished with the dpb building, > which continues from the point of failure, I may have rebooted before > running the make. Never hit a mono recently where I couldn't build it, > after one or more retries.
Right. Mono has a certain probability of building, i.e., sometimes it builds and sometimes it doesn't. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Previously, when producing amd64 snapshots, I restarted the mono build as often as necessary to get it built, but I have stopped doing that. Sometimes mono packages will show up in a snapshot, but mostly they won't. Mono is broken. If people need it, they better fix it. Retrying builds until one succeeds does not constitute a fix. Build environment voodoo (dpb, no dpb, reboot before building) does not constitute a fix. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
