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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Progress with GNAT on bare MIPS
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"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk> writes:

> To the GNU/GNAT guys: Would it be possible to decouple the compilation
> process a bit more so that these kinds of compilers can be built without
> any kind of runtime? I don't require them, yet they partially get built
> (or at least try to build them) and get installed (again, partially). I'd
> make it nicer to just have the build done then stop, that looks better
> than stopping with an error when the compilers have been built.

If you read thru the makefiles, you will find lower-level targets that
do each piece of the build. So it already is decoupled! Since the
overwhelming majority of users want to build a full native system,
that is the default target in the makefile.

-- 
-- Stephe