Re: Ada build now requires gnatmake?

[Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com>]

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 05:51 , <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> Anyway, the xtools are useful only on reasonable build machines where
> your do expect to do regular development, so I don't think the gnat1
> restriction apply if they still exist. The generated files are target
> independant so you're free to build them on any reasonable machine and
> transfer them, that's why no one really bothered with Makefile rules
> up to now, and when they were put in, a preexisting gnatmake was
> deemed an appropriate requirement. We can lower the requirement to
> just gnat1 and gnatbind but it doesn't have much value added.

Yes, I agree with this. I appreciate Zack's offer to rewrite the 
utilities
in C, but I don't think it has much added value. Anybody doing 
development
on GNAT has by definition access to the full compiler with tools 
(even if only
after the first bootstrap).

Right now, my highest priority is to get up to speed with 
integrating ACT
changes back into the tree.

   -Geert