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: 103376,81ad2a544a72a777 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!news2.dg.net.ua!news.alkar.net!not-for-mail From: Stanislav Tsekhmistroh Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT in Debian, heads up Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:08:18 +0300 Organization: Kometa Ltd. Message-ID: References: <87irvuejhc.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87ek6iecj2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <871x2he4vb.fsf_-_@ludovic-brenta.org> <87u0fdcp6l.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.248.173.24 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: pandora.alkar.net 1129806488 68429 195.248.173.24 (20 Oct 2005 11:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@alkar.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:08:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5814 Date: 2005-10-20T14:08:18+03:00 List-Id: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:54:58 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > It depends on your goals. If you just want to write Ada software, I > recommend using Debian Sarge and gnat 3.15p-12. You will have the > full complement of tools and libraries available to you, and no > "moving target" problem for another 14 months at least. If you want > to work on the Debian packages for the next release of Debian, you are > most welcome; see below. Since I am relatively new to Ada, my intention is to keep investigating GNAT and using it in my new projects. (Because I have seen all important advantages of Ada in my field: my activity is industrial automation.) While I keep moving on, I'll dig the GNAT sources and try to be usefull. The situation is like that: I understand that I need GNAT, but since the ACT rule the GNAT (at least by this moment :-)), and they don't even stoop to answer my email messages, I don't see other way than to take what we have and make all my best. Btw, my company is precisely in the category that "is out of the ACT scope". > >>> And what help is needed most of all? > > Since I'm planning to start transitioning to GCC 4.1 in a month or so, > now would be a good time to learn the internals of how the gcc-4.0 and > gcc-snapshot packages are built. The build scripts are fairly > complex, because they have to take care of 8 languages, 12 platforms, > and hundreds of patches. Later, I will need help with: > > * porting relevant patches to gnat-4.1 (from gnat): symbolic tracebacks, > bug fixes, libgnatprj, etc; > > * supporting biarch where it makes sense (especially powerpc64 and > amd64) > > * building gnat-gps 3.0 > > * porting asis and glade to gnat-4.1 > > * rebuilding all other packages with the new compiler > > in that order. This will take several months to achieve.