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Re: [Ada] runtime license wording change and Ada bootstrap, gcc/ada/scn.adb Determine_License
- From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
- To: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
- Cc: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:08:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Ada] runtime license wording change and Ada bootstrap, gcc/ada/scn.adb Determine_License
- References: <1238766487.20989.68.camel@localhost>
> The license wording will soon be changed and Ada gcc/ada/scn.adb
> (function Determine_License) currently checks about licence.
> Any change to the wording breaks Ada bootstrap as Jakub found out.
>
> How should we proceed?
scn.adb needs to be updated to recognize the new text I assume.
What would be the new wording, and in what way does it break scn.adb?
> What will happen with existing installed compilers?
Good question, the change in headers may indeed break bootstrap.
Arno