Re: GNAT and GCC
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:45:58PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> > I'm also very reluctant to package Ada at the same time as the main GCC
> > snapshots because it requires Ada installed to build. Others might
> > argue with me on that point, though.
>
> you can turn off any language in the debian/rules files you want. or
> do you argue that a bootstrap would fail, if no ada compiler already
> exists for the platform?
A bootstrap of languages-including-ada would fail. That is, gnat would
become a build dependency of the main gcc package. I'd almost rather
keep it separate to prevent that.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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