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-Thread: 103376,f16a645029bb2cdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:54:24 -0600 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The GNU Ada compiler References: <8352037.GvZVdQSXN4@linux1.krischik.com> <%jjpf.152581$dP1.510205@newsc.telia.net> <1587394.dEJr1xXLMr@linux1.krischik.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:53:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87ek49rvcy.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rcDUM89wIO0c4ARunBclrr42O54= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.242.103 X-Trace: sv3-9YwiugOJhRy5xj82XbwYHYBps8a/x3TJFXJjts+9oefws4cBJyNbwDGo+BoOb7nTJtBIC0qSGYQGZ1r!J0Mt60Gz2By4dEXPIx4F+mvKlJf+RXYVebYiHCR2f7uiFQGYQAO1AtP8hVuTyBV02nQVneRhCrw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6931 Date: 2005-12-19T15:53:49+01:00 List-Id: Adrian Knoth writes: > Martin Krischik wrote: > >>> Do your packages for Suse replace the Gnat packages that Suse >>> provides, or can they coexist? >> I never ever would replace the SuSE packages - you need them to >> compile the kernel! > > I think this is not the answer to the same question which arose for > me yesterday: if the distribution ships a gnat package, why would > one use yours? Yes, and another question: do your packages include all the distribution-specific patches, which are often necessary to compile the kernel or glibc? I appreciate your efforts, but my gut feeling is that they are not very productive; it would be more worthwhile, IMHO, to just join the existing maintenance teams of GCC in your distribution of choice, and provide patches to their build scripts or to the compiler itself as necessary. This way, the default GNAT shipped by your distribution would retain the ability to compile the kernel and glibc, and also have good Ada and good multi-language support. I would like to add that, in 2001, I switched from Red Hat to Debian for precisely two reasons: no Ada support in Red Hat 8, and no possibility that I could influence them. And now, I do much more than influence Ada in Debian :) -- Ludovic Brenta.