On 11/3/07, Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Howarth wrote: > > > Is an external copy of GNAT really required to build the > > ada language in gcc trunk? On powerpc-apple-darwin9, I am > > seeing configure fail with... > > > > configure: error: GNAT is required to build ada > > > > ...when ada is added to the language set. > > To wit: Debian "testing" doesn't include GNAT in it's gcc-4.2.3 version > either. > > Don't know why, however.
Because it doesn't build on all required archs. See http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnat-4.2.html But using the 4.1 version should be enough for bootstrapping. Richard.