From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14077 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2001 22:00:56 -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 13487 invoked from network); 17 Dec 2001 21:59:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk) (131.111.8.44) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 2001 21:59:33 -0000 Received: from student.cusu.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.179.82] helo=kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk ident=mail) by lilac.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16G5jY-0004Ii-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:55:40 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16G5jY-0005oO-00; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:55:40 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:11:00 -0000 From: "Joseph S. Myers" X-X-Sender: To: cc: , , Subject: Re: Freeze timing and questions In-Reply-To: <200112172120.fBHLKur02734@ulmo.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00946.txt.bz2 On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 guerby@acm.org wrote: > My preference would be to recognize them on i386-linux and enable Ada > if a known to work version is found. Same reasoning possible on > platforms, looks like on mingw32 we have someone taking care of GNAT > :). (Assuming by the time of the 3.1 release the Ada compiler is known > to be in good shape of course.) My preference would be for configure to test for some feature of GNAT that the current front end needs, is simple to test for, is in 3.13, and is not in 3.12, then accept the Ada compiler as working (under any of the names listed in configure) if the test for that feature passes. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk