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Re: Ada files now checked in
- To: dewar at gnat dot com
- Subject: Re: Ada files now checked in
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 12:25:07 -0400
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- References: <20011006161743.7F9B3F28CA@nile.gnat.com>
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:17:43PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<FWIW, Debian has pretty much decided to do that. Requiring an Ada
> compiler for every bootstrap of the C compiler would introduce a lot of
> complexity, especially given the number of our platforms on which Ada
> isn't available - Linux/Alpha in particular seems to be problematic.
> >>
>
> I thought we had things set up so that if there is no Ada compiler around,
> then there is no attempt to build Ada -- that's certainly what we had
> discussed doing, so now I am confused.
Yes, I'd assume so. But the complexity of having different languages
built from the same source on different platforms can interact badly
with our packaging system. We'll revisit the issue when 3.1 is closer
to release, though.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer