Talk:Debian 4 Build Instructions
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I'm thinking it would be a good idea to include instructions for using the command "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" so that this Mono installation gets put in /usr/local/bin so as not to disturb any pre-existing installations of Mono. Most common distros of Linux that have /usr/local/bin in $PATH will have it following /bin and /usr/bin so that software that requires/depends on Mono < 2.0.1 will still find the proper binary when using $PATH. Of course user needs to specify <path> when calling Mono-2.0.1 but seems a small point that is easily remedied. Not to mention the benefit of easily reverting OpenSim to using previous install of Mono by having it still available in /usr/bin | I'm thinking it would be a good idea to include instructions for using the command "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" so that this Mono installation gets put in /usr/local/bin so as not to disturb any pre-existing installations of Mono. Most common distros of Linux that have /usr/local/bin in $PATH will have it following /bin and /usr/bin so that software that requires/depends on Mono < 2.0.1 will still find the proper binary when using $PATH. Of course user needs to specify <path> when calling Mono-2.0.1 but seems a small point that is easily remedied. Not to mention the benefit of easily reverting OpenSim to using previous install of Mono by having it still available in /usr/bin | ||
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| + | With reg alternate mono - I suggest that we expand the page to cover all debian distros & mono configs ultimately making it a "deeper" debian experience - I think this page should become "Debian Build Instructions" then an general overview of which configs are supported or work best from our experience | ||
Revision as of 04:19, 20 January 2009
According to the README in the Source distribution the valid parameters to "--with-libgdiplus=" are
<copy-paste README> --with-libgdiplus=installed,sibling,<path> </end copy-paste>
"--with-libgdiplus=yes" makes no more sense than the instructions previously linked to advising "--with-libgdiplus=no"
Include a paragraph about placing Mono-2.0.1 in /usr/local/bin
I'm thinking it would be a good idea to include instructions for using the command "./configure --prefix=/usr/local" so that this Mono installation gets put in /usr/local/bin so as not to disturb any pre-existing installations of Mono. Most common distros of Linux that have /usr/local/bin in $PATH will have it following /bin and /usr/bin so that software that requires/depends on Mono < 2.0.1 will still find the proper binary when using $PATH. Of course user needs to specify <path> when calling Mono-2.0.1 but seems a small point that is easily remedied. Not to mention the benefit of easily reverting OpenSim to using previous install of Mono by having it still available in /usr/bin
Naturally i didn't actually read the documentation about the libgdiplus parameters - I was basing that on the opposite of what now appears to be the incorrect original instruction - I propose that we change it to "installed" for the sake of accuracy, although it does seem to work anyway
With reg alternate mono - I suggest that we expand the page to cover all debian distros & mono configs ultimately making it a "deeper" debian experience - I think this page should become "Debian Build Instructions" then an general overview of which configs are supported or work best from our experience
