Re: Ann: Generic Image Decoder v.01

[deadlyhead <deadlyhead@gmail.com>]

On Jun 27, 4:33 pm, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
> Since you're on Debian, gnat-4.4 has working symbolic tracebacks.  They
> are unfortunately broken in gnat-4.3.
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.

Actually, I'm really impressed with the job you've been doing
packaging GNAT for Debian.  I have it installed, too, but I've never
felt comfortable polluting my system's environment with libraries,
etc, that I'm just playing around with.  I _do_ use the Debian-
supplied compilers to test code that I've written, to make sure that
it doesn't break in a ``clean'' environment.

I think I originally compiled my current installation of GNAT-from-GCC
because I wanted to try out the AVR libraries, and found that I just
felt more comfortable building other Ada libs from source in my local
toolchain.  Of course, there is the whole maintenance issue, but
that's the price I pay for control.  Personally, I _really_ prefer
building from scratch, ala Linux From Scratch, but haven't had the
time to devote to that recently.  If only the Hurd were stable enough
to build and maintain a production environment from sources; then I'd
be really happy.