Re: Ada build now requires gnatmake?

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:15:39PM -0500, Geert Bosch wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 01:57 , Corey Minyard wrote:
> 
> >I just did an update and tried a bootstrap, and it seems that 
> >gnatmake is used to build the Ada compiler, specifically to build 
> >treeprs.ads, einfo.h, sinfo.h, and nmake.adb.  I thought 
> >bootstrapping was only supposed to require the compiler and 
> >gnatbind.
> 
> Yes, you're right. I have checked in a patch to einfo.ads and forgot
> to update the dependent sources, and sinced I have gnatmake on my
> system this didn't show up during bootstrap. I'll fix this and think
> about ways to ensure this doesn't happen again.

I thought the generated files had been taken out of CVS?

My offer to rewrite the generator programs in C stands.

zw