Robert Dewar wrote:
No trick here, Ada is a complex language and even a "simple" Ada
compiler that you envision is a huge amount of work, but if you
feel it is practical, by all means go ahead and create such a beast!
By the way, early on we thought quite a bit about how to bootstrap
from C (t
David Miller wrote:
The trick is to have a program that, even if massively suboptimal, can
compile ADA code for the purposes of bootstrapping the ADA compiler
and is written in C.
No trick here, Ada is a complex language and even a "simple" Ada
compiler that you envision is a huge amount of w
On 2007/11/3, "David Miller" wrote:
> The trick is to have a program that, even if massively suboptimal, can
> compile ADA code for the purposes of bootstrapping the ADA compiler
> and is written in C.
There are many tricks.
A) Works gnats from gcc-2.93.3? gcc-3.4.6? ...
B) Anyone has to compile
From: Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:40:56 -0400
> David Miller wrote:
>
> > But we don't need a fortran compiler to compile the gfortran compiler,
> > and we don't need a c++ compiler to compile the g++ compiler, and we
> > don't even need a java compiler to compile t
David Miller wrote:
But we don't need a fortran compiler to compile the gfortran compiler,
and we don't need a c++ compiler to compile the g++ compiler, and we
don't even need a java compiler to compile the gcj compiler.
That's because they are written in C
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. Th
t;
> > configure: error: GNAT is required to build ada
> >
> > ...when ada is added to the language set. Certainly
> > this isn't the desired behavior.
>
> GNAT is written in Ada, so you need an Ada compiler to
> start a build, just as you need a C compiler to b
Richard Guenther wrote:
On 11/3/07, Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 t
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...
> >
> > confi
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&quo
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Arnaud Charlet wrote:
>> configure: error: GNAT is required to build ada
> Yes, that's the expected and documented behavior.
Jack, we tried to write this down in the step-by-step instructions
you'll find at <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/>. Is ther
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. Certainly
this isn't the de
> 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
Yes, that's the expected and documented behavior.
Arno
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. Certainly
this isn't the desired beh
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