[Ada] multilib patch take two => multilib build working
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Tue Jul 22 15:28:00 GMT 2008
> I think you will end up having to support generating different
> source trees for each multilib variant to be safe and correct.
Yes, that comes out naturally if the RTS is built in libada. In fact,
Arnaud said:
>>>> The idea currently is to make these values
>>>> explicit so that when people read system.ads, they know right away what
>>>> the right value is.
That's "when people read system.ads", not "when people read
system-linux-x86.ads". In other words, he's not necessarily against
automatically generating system.ads from other means, for example using
configure tests. Which, I repeat, comes out naturally if the RTS build
is confined in libada.
> This will work for native builds but may have problems on
> cross builds where you can't run a program. I know for the
> RTEMS g-soccon* file we have to run a program on target
> hardware and capture the output.
Do you really need to run programs? Most of gen-soccon can be done by
running Ada source code through the C pre-processor and massaging the
output. In fact, the code that would be passed through cpp strongly
resembles gen-soccon.c itself.
> If you move the source to libada and start potentially
> using different source combinations for different multilib
> variants, then it does need to be on a branch.
>
> But some of the patches so far seem like they would be OK
> to commit on the mainline and minimize diffs.
Yes, that's true.
Paolo
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