From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3cb0c0deb57c863d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: ludovic.brenta@insalien.org (Ludovic Brenta) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: PolyORB 1.1r Date: 9 Jun 2004 07:52:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <214d6b7.0406090652.32959fe2@posting.google.com> References: <873c55afr0.fsf@insalien.org> <87y8mx8g4p.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.190.145.10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1086792752 5446 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2004 14:52:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1314 Date: 2004-06-09T07:52:32-07:00 List-Id: Jerome Hugues wrote in message news:... > In article <87y8mx8g4p.fsf@insalien.org>, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > > Why does PolyORB require GCC 3.4? Does it use Ada 2005 features? If > > it's just because of pragma Unreferenced, it is trivial to patch it to > > compile with 3.15p. > > PolyORB uses no Ada 2005 features. PolyORB may compile with 3.15p, > there are still work around for 3.15 concerning e.g. pragma Unreferenced. > > PolyORB does not require GCC 3.4.0, it is just that it is no more > tested with 3.15p. Besides, we got feedback that it compiles with > 3.15p on Linux. That is what I thought. So, Bruce, there is nothing stopping you from packaging PolyORB for Debian. The worst thing you may have to do is sed 's/(pragma +Unreferenced)/--\1/g' all the source files. Although I do not have the time to do it myself, feel free to ask me questions and I'll try to help. You may want to peruse my Debian Policy for Ada[1]. [1] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.html -- Ludovic Brenta.