On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, 18:19 Dave Blanchard, <dave@killthe.net> wrote:

> Hello all, while bootstrapping GNAT onto my cross compiled system with GCC
> 10.x I found that the make script leaves something to be desired.
>
> First off it doesn't add the host prefix to the cross compiler binaries;
> it calls gnatmake, gnatlink, gnatbind, gnatls, and gcc without the
> x86_64-linux-gnu- prefix, requiring an ugly hack to symlink to those tools
> to complete the build. Also at the end of the build there is an error when
> it tries to install gnatdll, which isn't built, doesn't exist, and is for
> Windows only.
>
> Does anyone know if these problems are fixed in later GCC versions? And do
> these people even test their obviously broken crap before releasing it on
> the world?
>

You know it's possible to ask for help without acting this way?

However, please use the gcc-help list to do so, not this one.


> I also note that the AdaCore team seem to be doing everything in their
> power to railroad people into giving them money for their proprietary
> compiler. First they disabled C and C++ languages in their 2018-up
> Community Edition binaries, which makes bootstrapping a full GCC impossible
> with these tools. I guess that didn't do the trick as people just used
> older CE releases to bootstrap with instead, so they discontinued CE
> entirely and removed links to the CE download page from their site, making
> it hard to find unless one knows what to search for.
>
> I've also been told that there is some kind of special licensing clause
> for the GNAT project which requires all code built by their GPL compiler to
> be GPL3 licensed, which is a laugh as I'm never doing that. Not sure if
> that's actually true or not.
>
> Anyhow, it's surprising (or should be surprising) to see such shoddy
> workmanship from an anti-freedom commercial organization joined to the hip
> with GCC.
>
> Dave
>
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