Bug 580316

Summary:	[TRACKER] dev-lang/mono-4 breaks reverse deps causing mcs to not be found
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	dotnet project <dotnet>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	cynede, jesse, toralf
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/gentoo/dotnet/issues/92#issuecomment-127455341
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558064 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568988
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	504036, 545964, 546056, 549734, 556458, 558106, 558934, 560892, 561186, 562474, 562546, 562550, 563234, 565032, 569252, 579100, 580548, 580638, 580682, 580944, 581140, 582424, 582676, 582894, 582946, 585472, 588598, 596598, 596600, 596614, 596650, 596652, 598842
Bug Blocks:	568988

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-04-17 11:36:55 UTC

I have seen many reverse deps being broken after people update to mono-4 versions from testing. Hence, we would need to know:
1. What is the way to properly fix that issues? Some people simply point to specify the path manually like MCS=/usr/bin/mcs . The problem with this is that it looks like (as we see in libproxy bug) it breaks with mono-2 and, then, we would need to conditionally do that depending on the mono version found at build time. Other people suggests bigger changes like https://github.com/gentoo/dotnet/issues/92#issuecomment-127455341

2. We would really appreciate if Toralf could run a *stable* tinderbox + latest mono-4 version to know the amount of reverse deps we need to get fixed before we can even think in stabilizing mono-4 and get rid of our really old stable version

Thanks a lot

Comment 1 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2016-04-17 12:45:55 UTC

I keyworded
dev-lang/mono ~amd64
so the 4.x versions will be used in stable too.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-08-25 19:08:25 UTC

This is really important now as it seems mono-4 went to stable and near all reverse deps have problems with mono-4 :S

Comment 3 Elliot Chandler 2016-12-31 23:01:47 UTC

I'm using mono 4 with no problems, just by including a symlink as follows:

dosym /usr/bin/mcs /usr/bin/gmcs

is it really that easy?

Comment 4 R030t1 2018-01-03 04:11:14 UTC

I just recently encountered this. What is the listed fix suggesting? Downloading a binary package and using it to bootstrap mono?

I tried 5.4.1.6 and 4.4.1.0.

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2018-01-27 18:47:58 UTC

tree should be now ok