Re: snag in building Ada mode Emacs module on Linux

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:
>
>> The module doesn't compile on Linux, because GNAT GPL 2014 doesn't
>> provide a (static or dynamic) libgnat for the sjlj runtime that is
>> compiled with -fPIC. I need -fPIC on all code in order to include it
>> in the dynamic library that is the Emacs module. I need the sjlj
>> runtime to support raising exceptions in the module; since Emacs is
>> not an Ada main, it uses the sjlj exception method.
>
> What will you do with the exceptions once they propagate out of Ada? 

There's a top-level exception handler at the Ada/C boundary.

> Or
> is it that exceptions won't work at all, even if caught at the boundary
> and converted to a status return/out parameter?

They don't work at all; they generate SEGV.

>> Is there a similar problem on the Mac?
>
> Yes.
>
> Will it be easy to recompile the runtime with a different exception
> method? I don't even know what the switches would be! At least GNAT GPL
> 2014 comes with an adalib/Makefile.adalib; 

For GNAT GPL, apparently we can do:

cd /usr/gnat/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.4/rts-sjlj
chmod +w *
make -f Makefile.adalib ROOT=/usr/gnat CFLAGS='-fPIC'
chmod -w *

but I haven't tried it yet.

> the FSF GCCs don't (but the
> GPL 2014 one might well work with minimal change).

Hmph. I'll just dump that issue on the Linux packagers.

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-- Stephe