Re: GNAT for Debian

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

jmarant@free.fr (Jérôme Marant) writes:

[packaging GNAT 3.15p on Debian]

> Florian Weimer has already done the job. You can ask him for the URL.

Is this true? Are you sure you're not alluding to gnat-3.3, which is
the branch of GNAT merged into GCC 3.3 and is less stable and reliable
than GNAT 3.15p?

Also, I remind you that gnat-3.3 does not come with shared libraries,
whereas both 3.14p and 3.15p do.

> The only work that need to be done is to manage a transition, which
> means rebuilding every package against the new GNAT 3.15p, and uploading
> them all. This requires time and manpower.

Agreed.  In fact, given the fact that we've got two Ada compilers (GCC
3.3 and GNAT 3.15p), there is a choice to be made.  Because the
general consensus seems to be that 3.15p is better than 3.3, I suppose
the transition will be to 3.15p.

In my packaging, I've made sure that libgnat-3.14p-1 and
libgnat-3.15p-1 can be installed on the same system.  This way,
binaries compiled with 3.14p can still run when 3.15p is installed; no
recompilation is necessary.

While I tested the installation, "apt-get install gnat=3.15p-1" did
the following:

- uninstall gnat 3.14p-1
- install libgnat-3.14p-1 3.14p-2 (because e.g. gnade-dev needs it)
- install libgnat-3.15p-1 3.15p-1 (because gnat 3.15p-1 needs it)
- install gnat 3.15p-1

> I think the Sparc port needs some work as well.

Yes, and interest.  I'm willing to send the URL to my GNAT 3.15p
package to whomever wants to try it on Sparc.

Same goes for the PowerPC port.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.