Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.3.1-r1

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

Well, not directly related to this issue, but related to gcc. So I'll reply to 
this thread in the hope of catching attention of all parties touching gcc 
ebuilds.

Please, do not add "ada" to gcc_lang definition in ebuilds, as per #25178!
This is getting rediculous - the moment I clean-up ebuilds I see "ada" popping 
in in a newer version :).
Having "ada" supplied will not add ada support to gcc. That involves quite a 
bit more: an ada-enabled bootstrap compiler (this is why this does not make 
any difference to majority of users) of a very specific version and certain 
additional procedure (this is why gcc build fails on users who have gnat 
installed). Even if time i taken to "fix" gcc ebuilds to support the supplied 
ada, this will yield only alpha-quality implementation, - quite undesirable 
for this language.

Please note, we now have ada supported separately from the main gcc tree. 
Please check out dev-lang/gnat for stable 3.14/3.15 version (gcc-2.8.2 based) 
and late cvs-snapshot of gnat-5.0 (gcc-3.2 based, package-masked atm). These 
use the code directly from the ACT (gnat developers) and this stuff does not 
interfere with gcc installations in a slightest - so you can have completely 
stable versions of both ;).

George

On Sunday 07 September 2003 13:33, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Yes the intention was to have it '~x86'.  Spider did not check
> with me *before* he changed it (:D), but that is ok - I will
> change that in a week or so if nothing major happens.
>
>
> Thanks,



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