Re: try to bluid gvd

[Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com> writes:
>>
>>>Third, GPS appears (to me at least) to be very difficult to build. I
>>>don't think anyone on the gnuada sourceforge group has managed to get
>>>a recent version to build.
>>
>>Right.  In Debian, we have 2.1.0 which is a bit old now, but
>>functional.  I've started work on 4.0.0w (from the CVS head) but
>>that's not complete yet.
>>
>>
>>>You don't say what OS you are on. The fact that make is not gnumake
>>>seems to rule out a linux distro but you have GNAT 2005? If you have
>>>that, there should be a pre-built GPS available too?
>>
>>Looks like FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> The Ada-aware compiler driver was traditionally called adagcc (in
> contrast with GNU/Linux distributions, which use gnatgcc).  I don't
> know if that still holds true with GNAT GPL 2005 Edition.
> 

Note that I don't think that AdaCore ever produced any compilerdrivers 
where gcc was anything other than gcc for the native compiler. I believe 
that was always done by people repackaging things to "make it easier".