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Re: GNAT is required to build ada
- From: "Richard Guenther" <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: "Toon Moene" <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Cc: "Jack Howarth" <howarth at bromo dot msbb dot uc dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 20:18:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: GNAT is required to build ada
- References: <20071103151929.GA11002@bromo.msbb.uc.edu> <472CC7FA.5000602@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
On 11/3/07, Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> wrote:
> Jack Howarth wrote:
>
> > Is an external copy of GNAT really required to build the
> > ada language in gcc trunk? On powerpc-apple-darwin9, I am
> > seeing configure fail with...
> >
> > configure: error: GNAT is required to build ada
> >
> > ...when ada is added to the language set.
>
> To wit: Debian "testing" doesn't include GNAT in it's gcc-4.2.3 version
> either.
>
> Don't know why, however.
Because it doesn't build on all required archs. See
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnat-4.2.html
But using the 4.1 version should be enough for bootstrapping.
Richard.