Re: mono?

[Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>]

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 21:53, Lee Braiden wrote:
> Anyone know what the status is of mono on debian/ppc?  I've tried installing 
> the 0.16 debs available at debianplanet.org/mono, but they fail with serious 
> problems (like missing packages :))
> 
> They didn't seem to compile from source either, but I might have missed 
> something there, being new to mono, etc :)

Basically, until the JITter is ported to powerpc you're in a for a lot 
of pain.  I have successfully in the past compiled mint (the non JIT
interpreter) for powerpc but it is slow and crashy.

I have it on good authority that Ximian are going to put some more
effort into the powerpc JIT...

-- Edd