Ada policy

[Joe Buck]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 04:21:02PM -0400, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > What bothers me (and what prevents me from doing testing of Ada) is not
> > that GNAT won't compile with proprietary Ada compilers, but that a
> > specific release of GNAT will only compile with certain very specific
> > other releases of GNAT, and that this changes all the time.  That makes it
> > very hard to build.
> 
> This really is not the case, there has been no change in the set of
> GNAT compilers that can be used to start a build for over four years.
> Any version 3.13 or later should work fine.

Perhaps I've been blaming the trouble I've had on the wrong issue, but
I've had much more trouble with Ada build failures than your message would
indicate, to the point where I only build Ada on recent GNU/Linux systems
with a very recent prepackaged gnat.