On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:13:42 -0400 Omair Majid <omajid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > * Michael Cronenworth <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> [2018-08-15 10:19]: > > On 08/15/2018 08:55 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Are you sure about that? Ocaml does it as well. > > > > The guidelines allow an initial bootstrap from binaries, but > > subsequent builds are supposed to build from source. The problem is > > that we can't build without the binaries at all. The Roslyn > > compiler requires the "msbuild" tool, which hasn't been > > successfully built from source. > > > > I don't have the time to lend, but if others are willing to step in > > that would be great. > > It's possible to build msbuild (and .NET Core) from source here: > https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/ > > But then there's the recursive problem of building all those binary > (nuget) packages that source-build needs, from source. > > We are working on trying to improve .NET Core (including msbuild) and > bring it to a point where it can be added to Fedora proper, but it's a > fairly long term goal. a nice thing on Mono is that it is fully multi-arch, supporting all Fedora arches. Won't be multi-arch problem for msbuild or .NET Core? Dan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/CPWTBFMIRDDW2W42FQGZAJFW6MF5SRGF/
