On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:09:54AM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Jack Howarth wrote:
> > I've considered adding ada to the compilers built in the
> > gcc4X packages and have decided against it. The ada developers
> > refuse to attempt to create a version of ada that can be boot
> > strapped from a c compiler. This means that gcc4X would develop
> > a BuildDepends on a prebuilt ada compiler from an external source
> > (which was built with a pre-existing ada compiler). This defeats
> > the purpose of having fink build everything from scratch with
> > the exception of the Xcode tools. FYI.
>
> Fink has other compilers that require a pre-built compiler to bootstrap.
> Are you getting requests for ada?
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter O'Gorman
> http://pogma.com
Peter,
No. I was just tinkering with the idea of adding ada support at one
point. I see a couple issues. We create the need to have pre-existing
ada compilers for three architectures (i386, powerpc and soon x86_64).
If we don't host those on the fink mirrors, we risk breaking gcc4X
builds over ada. The second is that ada is rarely tested for gcc builds
compared to other compilers so we might run into bootstrap issues at
some point. I decided the gain wasn't worth the likely headaches.
Certainly we require the Xcode compilers but those are from a known
reliable source of downloads;).
Jack
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