Missing dependency in Ada build?

Alan Lawrence alan.lawrence@arm.com
Mon Oct 12 13:25:00 GMT 2015


On 12/10/15 10:58, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>> Yes, that fixes the dependency problem; the build waits for the xsinfo to
>> terminate. This at least makes it easy to Ctrl-C and try again. Are we aware
>> of any reason why *not* to make that change?
>
> You may have noticed that I had made it before you posted this message. :-)

Ah, right. You give me far too much credit ;)

>> The hang in xsinfo appears to be miscompilation when the host compiler is
>> gnat-4.8 (on ARM), whereas gnat-4.6 succeeds. I'm going to try again with
>> later versions (4.9/5.0/etc.)...
>
> Thanks.  This could be worth documenting somewhere then.

I can confirm that gnat-4.9 works OK (as well as gnat-4.6).

I wonder whether bugzilla is still the right place to document this, given 4.8 
is now end-of-lifed...do you know of anywhere appropriate?

Thanks,
Alan



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