Possible issue with mono formula

[grahamj1978]

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There seems to be some kind of issue with the most recent 1 or 2 versions of the mono formula for brew. I use it with ckan, and when trying to start it gives a mono related error. An error that does not occur according to the discussion here (KSP-CKAN/CKAN#2630 1) when installing mono directly without brew. Any idea how to fix this, since I’d prefer to use brew rather than dealing with miscellaneous package (.pkg) installers?

[MikeMcQuaid]

Please provide more information on what the issue is and how to reproduce it.

[grahamj1978]

As far as I know the following steps generate the problem (more thouroughly described in CKAN issue 2630 that I linked in my original post):

1. If not already installed/updated, use homebrew Homebrew, perform the following:
   a) brew update
   b) brew install ckan
2. Try to run ckan
   a) ckan consoleui

ckan does not run and produces an error.

Since posting this issue I uninstall the brew version of Mono and installed it via a .pkg installer and CKAN worked fine.
Also, it was recently suggested in CKAN issue #2630 that a missing libmono-system-native library might be the cause of the issue.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Cool, thanks.

Also, it was recently suggested in CKAN issue #2630 that a missing libmono-system-native library might be the cause of the issue.

It could be. Could you see if that's installed by the mono formula and, if not, consider submitting a pull request to add it? Thanks!

[HebaruSan]

Debian had the same problem (I assume there was some unexpected change upstream affecting everyone?), and they fixed it by adding /usr/lib/libmono-system-native.so* to their mono-runtime-common package.

https://salsa.debian.org/dotnet-team/mono/commit/fcb8084be66074f5315728c2783348fb4c1bb0aa

What would that look like for Homebrew? All I see in mono.rb is configure/make/make install.

[MikeMcQuaid]

@HebaruSan Good question. From that commit alone I'm not quite sure; I suspect we'll need to pass a new configure option and/or dependency to build the relevant library?

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[HebaruSan]

It's still a problem. What kind of activity is needed?

[tjnycum]

Confirming this problem still exists and affects software besides CKAN

[MikeMcQuaid]

None of the maintainers are working on this so someone affected by the problem will need to step up and submit a pull request. Saying "this is a problem" does not help solve it.

[HebaruSan]

Is there a specific maintainer who is responsible for the mono package?

[SMillerDev]

Nope, all packages are the responsibility of the public. The maintainers are just here to guide it all.

[HebaruSan]

@tjnycum , what are some of the other packages that are affected?

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[HebaruSan]

Recent activity

[SMillerDev]

There isn't.