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,c29b14f3223f3446 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.8.135 with SMTP id r7mr29989723pba.8.1319482478021; Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:54:38 -0700 (PDT) Path: c1ni8519pbr.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!v2g2000yqf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: jrmarino Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Gnu ADA onto FreeBSD/AMD64-CURRENT Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4ea41d89$0$2553$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <4ea44ad9$0$2965$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <87zkgriiv5.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ea4811f$0$2966$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <5b97301e-7947-43bb-bfce-819690d5dd35@d33g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <4ea5ae51$0$2537$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 109.215.186.163 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1319482475 7011 127.0.0.1 (24 Oct 2011 18:54:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v2g2000yqf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=109.215.186.163; posting-account=Zsf4jwoAAADEqwCydv835KU9-S3h_Y26 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HNKUARELSC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18688 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2011-10-24T11:52:48-07:00 List-Id: On Oct 24, 8:28=A0pm, Mark Murray wrote: > > How hard would it be to incerease the number of languages it supports? > I'm hoping "not" :-). In order to avoid a proliferation of GCC builds, > Big win; if gnat-aux were to support Fortran (used a fair bit) and > Java (nice to have) or if the gcc46 port were to "grow" gnat-aux type > support, I'd be delighted! I wouldn't hold your breath on gcc46 supporting Ada, the bootstrap issue is hard to overcome. GNAT-AUX demands a 25-30MB download just for the first build of the compiler (in addition to the source code), but after that it uses the compiler on the system to build new versions. New version support is whatever GCC is. The GNAT-AUX tarball is customized, and these extra languages are left it. It would be a matter of putting them back and adding language options. Fortran should be fine. I understand the java is basically not worth having, is it even being seriously maintained? Last I checked/understood, this option is probably not worth pursuing. > Am I making overly lofty demands yet? ;-) Not particularly, but compiling building and testing is a huge time- suck. > No worries; now that I know where to look, I'm sure I can come up with > a better plan to the previous one. > > Thanks for your help! No problem. Dragonlace has all the source for gnat-aux. When it's time to build GNAT-AUX based on 4.7, I'll make patch format so it'll be easy to A) see what's different and B) start sending them to gcc for integration. John