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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: ANN: GCC 4.9.0 (2014) for Max OS X Mavericks
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Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On 31/05/2014 20:35, in article lyiool3fnv.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
> <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>
>> gcc-4.9.0-x86_64-apple-darwin13-2014-1.tar.bz2 is now available at the
>> same place as above.
>
> Simon, how does this version relate to GNAT GPL 2014?
> Older, newer, more recent/less recent bug fixes, or just tweaks for
> the sake of different licensing?

As Pascal says, it's FSF GCC 4.9.0, and the FSF's change notes are the
reference for the compiler.

GNAT GPL 2014 (for Mac) supports C, C++, Ada, and Objective C. My
release additionally supports Fortran and Objective C++. In all cases,
the compiler itself is built without change. I had to rebuild the
command 'gnat', because the original build with the compiler failed with
SIGSEGV; something to do with exceptions, I need to report this but I'm
a bit too vague on the details.

The only functional change to the tools was to gprbuild; it still
(wrongly) passes -c to ranlib, and I've improved the handling of static
stand-alone libraries (like [1]; I didn't patch gnatmake in the
compiler, because gprbuild is the proper tool for building libraries on
Mac OS X).

The RTS copyright is GPL 3 with the runtime exception; the tools are GPL
(I expect GPL 3, haven't checked). The ones where this could cause a
problem are ASIS, GNATColl, and XMLAda; AUnit, GDB and GPRbuild are
build/test tools.

README and patches are at the same place as the compiler tarball.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56616