Re: Ann: Generic Image Decoder v.01

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

deadlyhead <deadlyhead@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 27, 3:36 pm, Gautier write-only <gautier_niou...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 27 juin, 21:29, deadlyhead <deadlyh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > A quick note.
>>
>> > I just tried compiling this package with a GNAT compiler built from
>> > the gcc 4.4.2 sources and the GNU binutils package and got the classic
>> > `cannot find libaddr2line.a' error.
>>
>> I guess you tried to build tb.ads in the "Debug" mode (that's the
>> default), which uses GNAT's symbolic traceback. You can build
>> to_bmp.adb or mini.adb - without the trace-back wrapper - and also try
>> other build modes as well. Or even use a complete version of GNAT or
>> even another compiler ;-).
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Gautier's Ada programming --http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/
>
> Yup.  I ran `gnatmake -Pgid' with no other switches, which I _knew_
> compiled in Debug mode, but I didn't really consider the implications.
>
> So now, here I am compiling GCC 4.5.0, trying to navigate the strange
> and frightening labyrinth of installing and updated CLooG/PPL, GMP,
> MPFR and MPC while not torching half my Debian toolchain, and I
> could've just added -XBuild_Mode=Fast... Oh, well.  A reinstall of GCC
> was bound to happen soon anyway.

Since you're on Debian, gnat-4.4 has working symbolic tracebacks.  They
are unfortunately broken in gnat-4.3.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.