2007-04-03 Jonathan Pobst <monkey@jpobst.com>

[mono.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1cc99950c1cd2d1ee26dc93272760d25bfc8498c..d7eb80526448c82b1a3e9eb87677d38fce222261 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -82,6 +82,19 @@ This is Mono.
                ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
                make
 
+       For people with non-standard installations of the auto* utils and of
+       pkg-config (common on misconfigured OSX and windows boxes), you could get
+       an error like this:
+
+       ./configure: line 19176: syntax error near unexpected token `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(BASE_DEPENDENCIES,' ...
+
+       This means that you need to set the ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment var
+       when invoking autogen.sh, like this:
+
+               ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $acprefix/share/aclocal" ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/loca
+       
+       where $acprefix is the prefix where aclocal has been installed.
+
        This will automatically go into the mcs/ tree and build the
        binaries there.
 
@@ -195,6 +208,10 @@ This is Mono.
 
        --with-sigaltstack=yes,no
 
+               Experimental: Use at your own risk, it is known to
+               cause problems with garbage collection and is hard to
+               reproduce those bugs.
+
                This controls whether Mono will install a special
                signal handler to handle stack overflows.   If set to
                "yes", it will turn stack overflows into the