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 warning: gnatmake -P is obsolete and will not be available in 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.


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