Potentially outdated "Development - Getting Started" docs

[patridge]

It appears that the Development - Getting Started article may need to be updated to omit the --profile portion of the configure command. It may just be that line that needs to be updated, if that is sufficient for a clean Mac install. Alternatively, it could potentially point to OS-specific sections of the dedicated Building MonoDevelop page.

Background (should it help)

I decided to do a source-build of MonoDevelop on my OS X machine and got started by clicking the "Dev" link on the homepage, ending up on Development - Getting Started. From there, it suggested I run ./configure --profile=core (skipping the offer to run a Bitly link through Ruby for an OS X install). When that command ran, it failed with an error.

Error: automake failed.

Have you followed http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Mac_Support/Building_MonoDevelop_on_OS_X ?

FWIW, in the console output, the only error I could find prior to that seemed non-critical.

Makefile.am: error: required file './ChangeLog' not found

After following the dependency steps from the Mac OSX section of Building MonoDevelop, but not before the make steps, I tried the original ./configure --profile=core command again. It still failed with the same error message and URL recommendation.

Just for fun, I ignored the error and ran the Mac-specific make steps anyway. It built and ran successfully.

./configure --profile=mac
make
make run