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From: chris.m.moore@amsjv.com (Chris M. Moore)
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Subject: Re: GNAT for Debian
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:54:36 GMT
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:47:23 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
<randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote:

>Chris M. Moore wrote:
>> But this script provides gnatgcc, gnatmake etc.  /usr/bin/gnatgcc and
>> /usr/bin/gnatmake would both be symbolic links to the gnatfe script.
>> This script magically transforms gnatgcc to gcc and gnatmake to
>> gnatmake but using the versions in the alternate directory.
>
>So?
>
>> Surely it's better to do this outside of gnat rather than doing a
>> global edit on the source.
>
>Why?

It seems cleaner, less work and more maintainable to build gnat as
intended and then to front-end the compiler than to PATCH the
source/Makefiles to generate gnatgcc executables.  But if you want to
do it the hard way then I won't refuse to use your package.  ;-)

I did look at this not long ago but I abandoned my attempt to port
3.14 PATCHes to 3.15 for this very reason.  It just seemed harder than
it should be.

--
Chris M. Moore
Software engineer
speaking for myself