From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15714 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2004 00:56:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 15627 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2004 00:56:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail11.ha.ovh.net) (213.186.33.51) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2004 00:56:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 13103 invoked by uid 503); 27 Nov 2004 00:56:49 -0000 Received: from d213-102-193-86.cust.tele2.fr (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (laurent%guerby.net@213.102.193.86) by ns0.ovh.net with SMTP; 27 Nov 2004 00:56:49 -0000 Subject: Re: Status of the GNAT Ada compiler From: Laurent GUERBY To: "Luke A. Guest" Cc: GCC ML In-Reply-To: <1101513687.26204.17.camel@rogue.abyss2.demon.co.uk> References: <1101513687.26204.17.camel@rogue.abyss2.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1101516972.5935.73.camel@pc.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:13:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg01050.txt.bz2 Hi Luke, in order to be able to help you web need some information: - what is your OS - what is your OS installed Ada compiler - what are you typing in exactly - how does it fail exactly I personaly use SuSE 9.1 on both x86 and x86_64 cpus, the distribution comes with packages gnat and gnat-runtime, if you install them from YaST then you can compile without any problem GCC 3.4.x and GCC from current CVS by following the GCC website instructions. Sincerely, Laurent On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 01:01, Luke A. Guest wrote: > Hi, > > I've just tried to build GCC-3.4.3 only for the Ada compiler, it won't > even configure, leaving out the --enable-languages=ada flag doesn't > bring the compiler in. I've tried going back to 3.4.2 and 3.4.1, same > problems. > > I've just read through the ml archives and there is a thread about the > contribution to the Ada compiler already. Has Robert Dewar given any > info on the discussions he was going to hold at AdaCore? I can't see it > on the list. > > I've asked before, but when can we expect to see a new free version of > GNAT that includes *all* of the tools (there is > http://gnat-asis.sourceforge.net)? It's been around 9 years since 3.15p > and I haven't been able to build a 2.8.0 compiler for years (well I > haven't tried with GCC-2.95.x). > > I can see that there are Ada programmers (besides myself) who need an > Ada compiler, yet we're not getting anywhere (or don't seem to be). I > can see this either being forked, or a new compiler being written to > replace GNAT, which I don't relish the thought of, to be honest. > > Luke. > > >