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

[Zack Weinberg]

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

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:07:27 -0800

 On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
 > 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.
 
 I'm aware of this.
 
 > However, there is no reason why a large part of the run-time library
 > could not be moved to a separate directory.
 
 In fact, I don't see any reason why it should inhibit moving all of
 it.  gcc/ada/Make-lang.in can just reference the files from
 $(srcdir)/../libada/.
 
 > For the build, we should use another separate directory, IMHO.
 
 I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean here.
 
 zw