Comments on: One Reason Why Linux Isn’t Mainstream: ./configure and make http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/06/22/one-reason-why-linux-isnt-mainstream-configure-and-make/ Software Development and Biomedical Engineering Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:13:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jonathan http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/06/22/one-reason-why-linux-isnt-mainstream-configure-and-make/#comment-847 Jonathan Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:49:18 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/06/22/one-reason-why-linux-isnt-mainstream-configure-and-make/#comment-847 I found the solution. It was dying at "al" so I typed "al" and it coughed up the answer. You need to install the mono-1.0-devel package. I agree with you though... this should be automatic. I found the solution. It was dying at “al” so I typed “al” and it coughed up the answer. You need to install the mono-1.0-devel package.

I agree with you though… this should be automatic.

]]> By: Sam http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/06/22/one-reason-why-linux-isnt-mainstream-configure-and-make/#comment-687 Sam Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:35:28 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/06/22/one-reason-why-linux-isnt-mainstream-configure-and-make/#comment-687 Hi Bob. I've never used Ubuntu, but I use Fedora pretty regularly and I just checked -- it looks like Monodevelop is in the yum repository, and I'd be sort of surprised if it wasn't in whatever repository apt-get uses. If it's not in the default repository, you can add other yum repos as well -- I've always had much better luck letting yum sort out the dependencies and downloading the precompiled binaries than building anything myself. I agree that ./configure and make can be hard to use when you're building anything involving dependencies. Still, I guess my advice is to stick to the repositories, since they're designed to fix exactly the problem you're talking about. Hi Bob. I’ve never used Ubuntu, but I use Fedora pretty regularly and I just checked — it looks like Monodevelop is in the yum repository, and I’d be sort of surprised if it wasn’t in whatever repository apt-get uses. If it’s not in the default repository, you can add other yum repos as well — I’ve always had much better luck letting yum sort out the dependencies and downloading the precompiled binaries than building anything myself. I agree that ./configure and make can be hard to use when you’re building anything involving dependencies. Still, I guess my advice is to stick to the repositories, since they’re designed to fix exactly the problem you’re talking about.

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