ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to their own directory

[Florian Weimer]

The following reply was made to PR ada/5911; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: zack@codesourcery.com
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to
 their own directory
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:47:15 +0100

 zack@codesourcery.com writes:
 
 > The location of the Ada runtime and utilities is inconsistent
 > with the location of all other language runtimes.  They
 > should be moved to their own toplevel subdirectory, and their
 > build harness brought into line with the other languages.
 
 For technical reasons, the GNAT front end is built using the run-time
 library sources which come with the compiler sources, and not using
 the installed GNAT run-time library on the host system.  In other
 words, the compiler depends on a (rather small) subset of the run-time
 library sources.
 
 However, there is no reason why a large part of the run-time library
 could not be moved to a separate directory.  For the build, we should
 use another separate directory, IMHO.