Re: [Ada] GCC Ada bootstrap suggestion

[Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>]

> Well, the point is, I'm using a GNU/Linux system I mainly built from 
> scratch, so there's no easy package-installer available for me and I've to 
> built everything from source (which is, of course, "my own fault"). My 
> system started out with a gcc C compiler, so I could easily bootstrap and 
> install any newer GCC, including C++, Java or Fortran, as I wanted.

Right, so when building such system from scratch, doing a cross compiler is
not really the hardest part.

> So you think I should boot into Microsoft Windows, install the cygwin GNAT 
> binaries and use those to cross-compile gcc-4.3 for my GNU/Linux system?  
> Or at least boot up a live-cd that has the option to use a package 
> installer for an existing GNAT and compile GCC with that?  At least to me 
> this sounds somewhat disgusting.

I have no idea what your set up is.
I'd suggest using whatever environment you can cross compile from (which
includes any standard linux box, or any windows box).

> I believe it would be at least some nice idea to make some 
> binary-distributions easily available (and in a place they can be found).

Sure, there are some binaries available from libre.adacore.com and from some
other sites.

> If I give my idea some further thoughts (and finally manage to build GNAT 
> on my system) and it seems to be quite easily doable, are you interested in 
> results of my research and experiments?

Not sure what 'my idea' is here. If you're talking about creating a C
generator, that does not fit into the 'quite easily doable' category.

Arno