Re: Ada build now requires gnatmake?

[Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I thought the generated files had been taken out of CVS?

No, IIRC the opinion was that these files should stay checked in,
at least for now.

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, at 02:39 , Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>
> I thought that the generated files were now mentioned in
> contrib/gcc_update, so if you update with that or use 
> contrib/gcc_update
> --touch after updating you shouldn't see the problem.

I once submitted a patch for that, but never got feedback and I thought
it might be OBE. I'll check whether sources are automatically updated
and if not propose a patch for that. This will have to wait until next
week though, so if anybody wants to have a look at it before, that would
be great.

> At some point after 3.1 we might then decide that gnatmake is a 
> tool that
> people building Ada from CVS (and people building release 
> distributions)
> need to have installed, remove the files from CVS and gcc_update, make
> "make maintainer-clean" remove them, and arrange for the release 
> script to
> put them in the source directory if the build puts them in the build
> directory.

This seems like a good approach to me.

   -Geert