Re: Ada compiler

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

Duncan Sands writes:
> > I have already applied one of your patches to gnat in Debian (see the
> > changelog if you don't believe me).  But I would be very interested in
> > your other patches, if any.  Here again, the bug database is a useful
> > tool for traceability.
> 
> Hi Ludovic, as far as sockets go, I gave up on the 3.15p implementation
> and replaced it entirely with the gcc CVS version.  To do this, it is enough
> to replace the files g-soccon.ads  g-socket.adb  g-socket.ads  g-socthi.adb
> g-socthi.ads with the files of the same names from gcc CVS.  Also, you will
> need to extract the entry socket.o from CVS libgnat.a, something like this:
> 	ar x libgnat.a socket.o
> and then stick the extracted socket.o into the 3.15p libgnat.a.  If you want
> to build socket.o from source, I guess you will have to modify the 3.15p
> Makefiles a bit.

Thanks for the info.  Indeed I must be able to rebuild from sources;
this is Debian policy.  I do not mind that I have to tweak the
Makefiles, as I have already done that quite a lot.  Would you explain
just why you gave up on GNAT.Sockets in 3.15p?  Would you file bugs in
Debian for me?  Then I will do as you say and fix the bugs.  Filing
the bugs in the Debian bug tracking system helps justify and trace
these fixes.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.