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Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- To: zack at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 May 03 17:13:26 EDT
- Subject: Re: RFC/Ada: removal of $(ADAC) support
It achieves the goal I had when I wrote it, which was to enable
bootstrapping with no special effort on common free operating system
distributions that ship compatible Ada and C compilers, but with the
Ada compiler accessible only as 'gnatgcc' or similar.
Unfortunately, it didn't work and we got lots of complaints from users
of those systems.
You rejected a patch which would have fixed this.
I don't believe it would have.
The only way to "fix" it is to use the same compiler for everything. It
can be called either "gnatgcc" or "gcc", but the point is that you must
use the same one to compile both C and Ada.
My objection was not that it was looking for a "gnatgcc", which is
fine, but using "gcc" to compile some files and "gnatgcc" to compile others.