-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trevor Harmon wrote: | On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Benjamin Place wrote: | |> I don't think there is a GNAT package in Fink, I looked on the |> Packages page and didn't find one. It seems to me that the GNAT Ada |> compiler is analogous to Apple's DevTools, so therefore GNAT would |> need to be represented in Fink by a virtual package. |> |> My reading of Fink's dev docs makes me think that would be *hard*. |> |> Is there another way? Is making a virtual package easier than I think? | | | You shouldn't need a virtual package. You can just write a normal | package description that grabs GNAT from here: | | http://www.gnu.org/software/gnat/gnat.html | | There's a tutorial for that here: | | http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/quick-start-pkg/index.php |
Except that gnat needs an ada compiler to bootstrap (specifically it needs gnat). There is no gnat package in fink bacause making one is a pain and, until now, there has been no demand for one. Peter -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBQ5+TQ7iDAg3OZTLPAQL7AQQAsF56c/GQXq8UMn0IY0MO04ue4yUBuMrn oFCWKVO4rbaeLVQqW3aiCvIMRb4h1KupX69kntn0GiYak9TsY0obKy4JDh8uD9tn TFjuG3PL7OLdYtOQdd1tK+w+0YYVVpI+oIxDPy31JjLqW/TBpcunvUDnpTnzt4IE Q556nR6A2OA= =90Tx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
