From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2249 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 2002 10:16:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2188 invoked by uid 71); 11 Mar 2002 10:16:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20020311101602.2186.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Zack Weinberg Subject: Re: ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to their own directory Reply-To: Zack Weinberg X-SW-Source: 2002-03/txt/msg00340.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR ada/5911; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Zack Weinberg To: Florian Weimer Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: ada/5911: Ada runtime and utilities should be broken out to their own directory Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 02:07:27 -0800 On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > zack@codesourcery.com writes: > > > The location of the Ada runtime and utilities is inconsistent > > with the location of all other language runtimes. They > > should be moved to their own toplevel subdirectory, and their > > build harness brought into line with the other languages. > > For technical reasons, the GNAT front end is built using the run-time > library sources which come with the compiler sources, and not using > the installed GNAT run-time library on the host system. I'm aware of this. > However, there is no reason why a large part of the run-time library > could not be moved to a separate directory. In fact, I don't see any reason why it should inhibit moving all of it. gcc/ada/Make-lang.in can just reference the files from $(srcdir)/../libada/. > For the build, we should use another separate directory, IMHO. I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean here. zw