Basic Installation
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The Mono project has developed mono, a CLI runtime. The build process
of each of these depends on nothing more than a C compiler and glib2.

However, to provide a working runtime environment, these programs must
be supplemented by the class libraries, which are written in C#.  This
package contains the components written in C#: class libraries,
compilers and tools.

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*                            NOTICE                                 *
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*	Unless you are developing the class libraries, you should   *
*	not need to do any build steps in this directory.           *
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*       Go to ../mono and read the README file to compile and       *
*       install.                                                    *
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*       ../mono is where you have your `mono' source download       *
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If you only want to build a snapshot or a fresh checkout of the
sources, you should go into the `mono' sibling directory and issue the
make command, like this:

	  cd ../mono
	  ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
	  make
	  make install

The compilation is bundled with the build due to dependencies on the
class libraries on the runtime.

Configuration
=============

If you want to change the configuration options for the build process,
place your configuration options in build/config.make

A list of variables that control the build are listed in the file
build/config-default.make.

More About the Build System
===========================

More information is found in build/README.*. Here's a quick rundown
of the features:

        * Profile support. 'make PROFILE=profilename' or 'export
	  PROFILE=profilename ; make' will work. Profiles are defined
	  in build/profiles/profilename.make ;

        * Important variables are shared among makefiles now; you can
	  edit build/config.make (see build/config-default.make for a
	  template) and give global settings, or just have a much
	  saner time of writing new makefiles.

        * Response files, stamps, and other build trivia now all land
	  in build/deps/, making the library build directories
	  cleaner.

        * Test libraries now live in class/Library/Library_test.dll,
	  not class/Library/Test. 'make test' will build the test DLL,
	  'make run-test' will actually run the nunit tests.

        * Standardized recursive targets: all, clean, install, test,
	  run-test.  Read build/README.makefiles for definitions of
	  what they should do

        * (Relatively) sane 'make dist' target; 'make distcheck'
	  support;