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[PATCH] Adding a fully-bootstrapped mono

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: aaron.covrig.us <at> ieee.org, richard <at> freakingpenguin.com,
 74609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, unmush <at> proton.me, janneke <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#74609] [PATCH 00/21] mono bootstrap
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:39:30 +0200

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On Sat, Dec 21, 2024 at 12:03:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > It turns out the first 2 patches didn't apply cleanly, so I fixed that
> > up and I'm sending them back to the list.
> >
> > A couple of things that I noticed:
> >
> > * mono-5.something doesn't have its patches apply cleanly
> > * I was only able to build to mono-3.12 before I got a build failure on
> > x86_64
> 
> Oh, that looks like half of the chain.  Could you share the error with
> unmush?  Does it fail reproducibly?

We figured out there was a race condition and now the earlier versions
of mono have parallel-build? #f set.

> > * mono-1.2.6 doesn't have support for aarch64 or riscv64, and will
> > probably need some patches (later) to add support.
> > * libjit FTBFS on powerpc64le. I tried working around it but wasn't
> > successful in when it came to using libjit.
> > * The assembly included in libjit targets a too-early version of arm, so
> > it is just broken completely on armhf and would probably do best with it
> > being ripped out.
> 
> Regarding architecture support, that’s fine: we can add a suitably
> restrictive ‘supported-systems’ field and improve platform coverage
> if/when patches are available.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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