Bug#4455: david sez don't override gcc in GNAT
[just a reminder to me to fix this]
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From: david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: Bug#4426: gcc bug #2
To: eichin@cygnus.com (Mark Eichin)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 10:44:20 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: jimr@simons-rock.edu, 4426@bugs.debian.org, david@elo.ods.com
Mark Eichin writes:
> If you've upgraded the gcc package to 2.7.2.1, then yes, gnat won't
> work. I suppose the next gnat package I release should have some sort
> of exact-match dependency to avoid this problem, or it should drop the
> override altogether
Please don't override the gcc from the gcc package in any case.
Instead, please send me the appropriate files to make the normal gcc
Ada-aware. Look at how fortran is handled in the current gcc package.
> (perhaps supplying an ada-gcc executable, which
> would fail to compile C code if the gcc installation didn't
> match... making it *much* clearer where the blame belongs.)
This is probably a good idea. Gcc's handling of compiler versions is
nice for C, C++ and ObjC, since they are fully integrated, but it
breaks down horribly for other languages because of different release
cycles.
David
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