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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: About static libraries and Debian policy
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Simon Wright writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>> That's because GNAT GPL includes a non-standard 'libaddr2line.a'
>> produced from binutils (and therefore pure GPL) and calls that to
>> produce the symbolic tracebacks.  GCC (from the FSF) lacks this
>> library.  I patched GCC to use an alternate mechanism instead,
>> i.e. fork()/exec() and call /usr/bin/addr2line.  This restores the
>> functionality in the FSF version of GNAT.
>
> Ludovic, could you point me towards the patch for this? On Mac OS X, we
> don't have addr2line, the equivalent is atos.

Latest version:
http://green.ada-france.org:8081/revision/file/adfe332edf9057b6de622519fd9161421c5c9c76/debian/patches/ada-symbolic-tracebacks.diff

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.