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Lucretia
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 Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 12:11 am Post subject: GCC, Ada n stuff |
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Hi,
I've just looked to see if Gnat was installed by default, it seems not; although the ebuild *does* actually enable it.
I read in one of the other threads that the maintainer hasn't much experience with Gnat, sorry, but that isn't a good enough excuse. I have build Ada a few times (although a while ago now) and IIRC it's just another directory that gets included into the build if it's there, like the cpp, java for f77 directories, so if he can handle these he can handle the Ada one also.
Maybe it would be better to download the separate archives, core, g++, f77, java, ada and then use the USE variables to enable the builds. Can we get this done as I really don't want to have to hack an ebuild?
Thanks,
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 5:12 am Post subject: Re: GCC, Ada n stuff |
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| Lucretia wrote: | | I read in one of the other threads that the maintainer hasn't much experience with Gnat, sorry, but that isn't a good enough excuse. |
Requests for changes will probably be received better with a little less attitude. You can search bugzilla to see if there are any bugs filed already, and if not, add one.
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Lucretia
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 8:16 am Post subject: Re: GCC, Ada n stuff |
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| pjp wrote: | | Lucretia wrote: | | I read in one of the other threads that the maintainer hasn't much experience with Gnat, sorry, but that isn't a good enough excuse. |
Requests for changes will probably be received better with a little less attitude. You can search bugzilla to see if there are any bugs filed already, and if not, add one.
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 That is not attitude. I aksed a question, said what I did to find the answer then said what should be done to resolve the problem.
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pjp
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Stating that something "isn't a good enough excuse" came across to me incorrectly then. My apologies for misinterpreting, but in written text, it doesn't read favorably.
Ignoring that part of my earlier response, the bugzilla comments are still relevant.
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Lucretia
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| pjp wrote: | Stating that something "isn't a good enough excuse" came across to me incorrectly then. My apologies for misinterpreting, but in written text, it doesn't read favorably.
Ignoring that part of my earlier response, the bugzilla comments are still relevant. |
It's not the easiest thing to compile GCC, but if you can, you can compile any front-end to it. Simple as that, so having somebody say that they have no experience, is no excuse...the port has been done for them, it's just a matter of slapping the archives together and letting the makefiles do their job.
What I didn't realise was that there are two different versions of Gnat, the GCC 3.x one which is supposedly unstable and the GCC-2.8.1 version which is the official version - except that www.gnat.com has announced 5.10ish that is based on GCC-3.x, it's just not public! 
So it *IS* a pain to install Gnat for GCC-3.x, you may as well just dwnload the binaries for the latest version and use that instead.
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