Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition?

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2018-05-05, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>> One data point:
>> 
>> I have never been able to build a GNAT compiler for VMS Alpha from
>> the FSF sources even though AdaCore did offer a GNAT Pro version for
>> VMS.
>>
>> I don't know if this is due to missing bits in the FSF sources or my
>> missing out a critical step (VMS has some unique build requirements).
>
> It?s missing the bits you need. I?ve even noticed VMS bits having been
> remove bed from one version to another.
>

Thank you Luke, that's very useful. It means I now know for sure
there's no point in spending any more time in the future trying
to get it working.

(After a major GCC version release, I sometimes have an attempt at
trying to build GNAT for VMS but so far without success.)

Thanks,

Simon.

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