On 3 May 2015, at 07:41, Jerry van DIjk <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > [email protected] says... > > IMNSHO: > >> GCC 5 says >> $ gnatmake -p -P bc >> warning: gnatmake -P is obsolete and will not be available in >> the next release; use gprbuild instead > > As I read this it says that the gnatmake '-P' option will become > obsolete, not gnatmake itself. I would find the latter rather strange; > gnatmake is, I think, a necessary part of GNAT's source based library > model. Removing it from the fsf compiler would render the latter > practically unusable.
I think you are right. > Making '-P' obsolete does make some kind of sense: use gnatmake for pure > Ada programs, gprbuild for more complex (multi-language) projects. > > Trouble is of course that without a gprbuild in the fsf build it's > suitability for realizing complex projects is pretty much over. There is a gprbuild in _my_ FSF distribution for the Mac! precisely for the reasons you state. >> My main objection is that there?s no public repo for gprbuild >> (that I know of), so we're stuck with the annual GPL source releases. > > Not to ruin anyone's day, but that's assuming the GPL'ed gprbuild will > continue to work with the fsf toolchain… Well, at least we have the source for the GPL’d gprbuild. _______________________________________________ Emacs-ada-mode mailing list [email protected] http://host114.hostmonster.com/mailman/listinfo/emacs-ada-mode_stephe-leake.org
