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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 12:19:54 -0400
- Cc: zack at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- References: <20011006161624.10128F28AE@nile.gnat.com>
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:16:24PM -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.
> >>
>
> That's an entirely reasonable decision
>
> <<Is there any reason that the gcc driver from a 3.1 install which did
> not include --enable-languages=ada should be unable to drive gnat1,
> though?
> >>
>
> The answer to this should be no ...
In which case, we only need to package the gnat1 backend separately,
without rebuilding the gcc driver, and can simply drop it in. That'd
be ideal.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer