[yocto] Mono 2.10.8.1 (meta-mono) Corelib not in sync with runtime...

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Ryan,

On Thursday 26 September 2013 18:04:03 Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I am trying to get Mono 2.10 working on a core-image-basic running on
> > qemux86 machine. I am using pokay-dylan-9.0.2 on a Debian 6.0.7 system for
> > the builds and been able to build and run images without issue. Yet, when
> > I went to add the meta-mono layer from git.yoctoporject.org, I started
> > running into problems.
> > 
> > Corlib not in sync with this runtime: expected corlib version 96, found
> > 100. Loaded from: /usr/lib/mono/2.0/mscorlib.dll
> > Download a newer corlib or a newer runtime at
> > http://www.go-mono.com/daily.
> 
> I dug into the mono build and figured out that I had a version mismatch
> between 'mono' (builds the runtime for the target) and 'mono-native'
> (builds a runtime for the build system and uses it to build the corlib).
> The key was defining both of the following in local.conf, not just the
> first line which is all I had originally.
> 
> PREFERRED_VERSION_mono = "2.10.8.1"
> PREFERRED_VERSION_mono-native = "2.10.8.1"
> 
> Anyway, attached is a patch against meta-mono (from
> git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-mono) that makes these changes:
>  - Adds a comment to the README about the two configs above.
>  - Reconfigures mono to be built without X support, skip as desired.
>  - A few packaging tweaks, namely moving the bulky *.mdb (Mono debug
>    databases) to the -dbg package.
>  - Adjustment to QA packaging checks to resolve errors encountered.
>  - Moved the mono-2.10.8.1 folder in meta-mono/recipes/mono to
>    meta-mono/recipes/mono/files so the contents can be found.
>  - Quick fix to mono-xsp recipe to avoid parsing error, probably not the
>    fix to make if mono-xsp was going to be built (but I am not).
> 
> Hope that helps some one, it does myself as I can now run Mono apps in my
> qemux86 target. Next challenge is to do the same with a qemuarm target
> (actual hardware comes later :)!

Have you sent these fixes to the layer maintainer - Autif Khan 
(autif.mlist at gmail.com) ? It would be good to get those integrated.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre