[Ada] Bootstrapping mainline GNAT fails

[Florian Weimer]

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:14:52AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> 
>>   - Bootstrapping with CC=gcc-3.0 does NOT work on Debian/x86 unstable.
>> 
>>   - Bootstrapping with CC=gcc (2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease))
>>     does NOT work either.
>
> Can you quantify "does not work", please?

It's the ICE on namet.adb we are talking about (see the root of the
thread).

> If the problem is that the Makefile tries to use plain gcc or
> gcc-3.0 (which don't support Ada and never have) to compile Ada
> sources, that is a bug in the configure script.

See Richard Kenner's reply; according to him, using different compiler
drivers is not recommended.

> I do regular mainline builds on Debian/x86 unstable with no special CC
> setting; gcc (2.95) gets used for everything except Ada source,
> gnatgcc gets used for Ada.  This at least used to work reliably.  I
> *think* the -Wno-long-long breakage got addressed last week...

The -Wno-long-long breakage does not count because a workaround is so
trivial. ;-)