From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9322 invoked by alias); 4 Dec 2001 23:06:22 -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 9214 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2001 23:05:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Dec 2001 23:05:57 -0000 Received: from darwin (DARWIN.GNAT.COM [205.232.38.44]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6225F28C1; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:05:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:06:00 -0000 Subject: Re: Ada build now requires gnatmake? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v475) Cc: fw@deneb.enyo.de, zack@codesourcery.com, minyard@acm.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org To: guerby@acm.org From: Geert Bosch In-Reply-To: <200112042251.fB4MpCY32442@ulmo.localdomain> Message-Id: <7E5FF502-E90B-11D5-8627-00039344BF4A@gnat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.475) X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 05:51 , 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