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Re: 4.8.0 : Neither go nor ada built due to excessive errors with both.
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
- Cc: "gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:27:36 -0700
- Subject: Re: 4.8.0 : Neither go nor ada built due to excessive errors with both.
- References: <fb7fd8be57d0 dot 514daa36 at blastwave dot org>
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> Not sure what the cause of the troubles are with go and gnat/ada :
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2013-03/msg02413.html
>
> I know that I have a chicken and egg problem with gnat in that I need
> an ada compiler before I can proceed with a gcc bootstrap and I think
> I would need to dig deep into my history shelves to find that. What
> bothers me is "go". Are there some special requirements for "go"
> other than those required for GCC as a whole? I don't see anything
> documented for magic or some hidden incantation so I assume that
> a valid C compiler will do the job. However, it won't. I get simply
> horrible results for "go" within the exact same environment that
> builds the above result.
Ada does require a pre-existing Ada compiler. However, there are no
special requirements for Go. I don't see the problems at the above
link so I don't know what is wrong.
Ian