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Re: ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to their own directory
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: gcc-gnats at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:07:27 -0800
- Subject: Re: ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to their own directory
- References: <20020310183717.1503.qmail@sources.redhat.com> <87sn78hz8c.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> zack@codesourcery.com writes:
>
> > The location of the Ada runtime and utilities is inconsistent
> > with the location of all other language runtimes. They
> > should be moved to their own toplevel subdirectory, and their
> > build harness brought into line with the other languages.
>
> For technical reasons, the GNAT front end is built using the run-time
> library sources which come with the compiler sources, and not using
> the installed GNAT run-time library on the host system.
I'm aware of this.
> However, there is no reason why a large part of the run-time library
> could not be moved to a separate directory.
In fact, I don't see any reason why it should inhibit moving all of
it. gcc/ada/Make-lang.in can just reference the files from
$(srcdir)/../libada/.
> For the build, we should use another separate directory, IMHO.
I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean here.
zw