Re: GNAT and GCC
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:20:42PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> Ok, fine with me. This means however that GCC source package will be
> duplicated (starting from 3.1, as it has been said).
Perhaps we should look at toolchain-source? I don't like it as a
solution, but it already exists.
> Once GNAT has been ported on every platform, we will see whether it makes
> sense to find another mechanism (interesting challenge to Debian, we
> will be willing to build different binary packages from the same source
> depending on what packages are/can be installed).
>
> Concerning the port of GNAT, I've done the Sparc and PowerPC one and that
> was quite straightforward. I understand that Alpha may be much harder
> because it will be the first Linux/64 bits port.
On the other hand, there's quite a bit of good Alpha support in GNAT
already, so it shouldn't be too bad.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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