Re: Ada files now checked in

[Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
  I therefore have the following three choices:
  
  I can jump through extensive hoops to construct a private bootstrap
  compiler which speaks both C and Ada and use that.  I will not do
  this, because a major reason why I do daily builds is to make sure
  that the CVS tree can be compiled and tested using only stock
  distribution tools.
  
  I can fix the Makefiles, as I have done, so that they comprehend
  this *common* configuration and work correctly.
  
  Or I can ignore Ada until the system compiler becomes one that
  understands it.  This probably won't happen until 2003 or so.  I
  guarantee you this is the choice most people will make.

Robert and I suggested a fourth version:
  Build GNAT using the newly generated GCC driver, requiring only access
  to the gnat1/gnatbind executables.

I must say that I do not understand the issue. Either you have a
GCC version with an Ada front end, or you don't.
In the first case, you set the CC environment to your GCC driver
with Ada support (if configure cannot figure this out). 

In the second case you need to download a complete Ada compiler and
you're back in the first case, or you have to get a gnat1/gnatbind
executable and you'd need our fourth solutoin.

Why are there any problems with this approach?

  -Geert