Re: compile packages with gnat-4.6

[Reto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch>]

On 05/20/2011 12:03 PM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Reto Buerki wrote:
>> On 05/18/2011 12:35 PM, Xavier Grave wrote:
>>> I have a new upstream version for narval (1.14) and I'm planning to
>>> package it using gnat-4.6.
>>
>> I'm experimenting with FSF gnat 4.6.0 builds at the moment, using Debian
>> gcc/gnat as bootstrap compiler. Since the process is not very well
>> documented, I wrote down my findings [1].
>>
>> @ludovic: Do you think the configure options I use are ok? I'm trying to
>> disable as many of the unneeded options as possible to speed up the gnat
>> build. Maybe there are other options which are not actually needed for
>> gnat which I'm not aware of.
> 
> At first glance your options seem OK.  You might try --disable-bootstrap
> and --disable-lto.  I expect --disable-bootstrap, by itself, to result
> in significant time savings.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try adding these two options.

>>> To do so I'm needing a few packages :libxmlada libaws liblog4ada
>>> polyorb and so on ...
>>
>> Please tell me if you need help with polyorb, I'm glad to help.
> 
> If you'd like to help with polyorb, you should start by building the
> gnat-4.6 packages (as opposed to the pristine upstream sources) like
> Xavier.

ok will do. I need gnat built from the pristine upstream sources for
another project.

> I'm waiting for the upload of gcc-4.6 (=4.6.1-1) before I upload gnat-4.6
> to unstable.  This should happen within the next 3 weeks or so.

ok.

- reto