On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote:
[Apologies for the possible double-post, I mistyped the From: address]
Hello.
It's come to my attention that the FreeBSD ports system has very poor support
for Ada and Ada software in general.
A quick search on Freshports for 'Ada' shows the following packages:
devel/adabooch - No dependencies registered!
devel/adacurses - lang/gnat
devel/adasdl - lang/gnat
net/adasockets - lang/gnat (broken)
textproc/xmlada - lang/gnat-gcc41 (broken)
textproc/xmlada-gps - lang/gnat (broken)
x11-toolkits/gtkada - lang/gnat (broken)
x11-toolkits/gtkada-devel - lang/gnat (broken)
x11-toolkits/gtkada-gcc - lang/gnat-gcc41 (broken)
x11-toolkits/gtkada-gps - lang/gnat (broken)
I'm aware there are more packages than this in the ports sytem. The situation
doesn't get any better the more you read...
The problems any user of Ada on FreeBSD faces are:
PROBLEM 1. Lack of packages (as shown above)
Of the 10 packages listed, only three of those (maybe two) actually
work.
The packages are way out of date and don't build with the newer
GNAT's. Patches welcome.
PROBLEM 2. No choice in the use of compiler
The Ada world is essentially divided between the GCC version of GNAT
that can produce executables not tainted by the GPL (GNAT-FSF) and the
GPL version (GNAT-GPL) from AdaCore which can't.
Debian, for example, only uses GNAT-FSF (but one can, of course,
just download GNAT-GPL from AdaCore and use it without issue).
PROBLEM 3. Compiler version chaos and lack of architecture support
We have:
lang/gnat (GPL 2009 version, i386 only)
Patches for amd64 support are also welcome. I thought you were
going to do a port for GNAT-gpl amd64?
--
DE
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