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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:09:37 +0100
From: Sven Esbjerg <esbjerg@xbsd.net>
To: Laurent Debacker <laurent@etive.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mono-0.29_1
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:56:03PM +0100, Laurent Debacker wrote:
> The makefile says the garbage collector doesn't work in the CURRENT branch
> of FreeBSD. Okay, but is it still right for Mono 0.31?
> What's the problem with the garbage collector? Is something broken in
> CURRENT?

Why don't you search the archives. This has been brought up many times. 
Plain and simple: mono has been programmed with linux'isms that needs be
converted to freebsd'isms or something more portable. 

I guess the hope is that the port of mono to darwin will solve most of the
problems.

Sven