From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: dewar@gnat.com
Cc: drow@mvista.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Subject: Re: Ada files now checked in
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 09:30:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011006093002.K9432@codesourcery.com>
References: <20011006161624.10128F28AE@nile.gnat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00396.html

On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:16:24PM -0400, dewar@gnat.com wrote:
> <<FWIW, Debian has pretty much decided to do that.  Requiring an Ada
> compiler for every bootstrap of the C compiler would introduce a lot of
> complexity, especially given the number of our platforms on which Ada
> isn't available - Linux/Alpha in particular seems to be problematic.
> >>
> 
> That's an entirely reasonable decision
> 
> <<Is there any reason that the gcc driver from a 3.1 install which did
> not include --enable-languages=ada should be unable to drive gnat1,
> though?
> >>
> 
> The answer to this should be no ...

I'm afraid the answer is yes.  If you configure a language out with
--enable-languages, its spec strings are not included in the
default_compilers array.  Therefore, even if the front-end magically
appears in $(libsubdir), it won't be able to drive it.

That could of course be changed.

zw