As far as I understood it, even with an old mcs in the PATH it should first try 
to use that one, detect that it is too old/doesn't work and then fallback to 
the monolite directory.
So it should "just work" :)
 
-- Alex
 
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:23:21 +0200
> From: fab...@canvon.de
> To: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com
> Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Build failure on ARMv6/Raspberry Pi with 
> Raspbian/armhf
> 
> * Alexander Köplinger (Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:40:28 +0200):
> >
> > > That worked.  I'd suggest the README.md would be updated, though, as it
> > > specifically says to use monolite with EXTERNAL_MCS for bootstrapping
> > > (under "If you don't have a working Mono installation"). It should say to
> > > remove any existing gmcs from the $PATH, instead.
> >  
> > That came up before already and we updated the readme, looks like you don't
> > have the latest version:
> > https://github.com/mono/mono#if-you-dont-have-a-working-mono-installation
> >  
> > -- Alex
> 
> Yes, I'm using mono-3.12.0-branch (to get a stable version) where it is
> not updated yet.
> 
> 
> Also I'd suggest to change
> 
> | The build will then use the files downloaded by `make get-monolite-latest`.
> 
> to 
> 
> | The build will then use the files downloaded by `make get-monolite-latest`,
> | as long as there is no existing gmcs in $PATH.
> 
> (or something on that lines) so people won't accidentally end up with the 
> wrong
> bootstrap compiler. Or is that no longer correct on the master branch?
> 
> Regards, Fabian
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