Hi Andrew: I have been gradually building up my gcc-4.7 related tool chain for my new Debian wheezy system, but I have now run into a problem for gnat (Ada). The issue is the Debian packager for gnat simply decided to skip packaging of gnat-4.7 (with no public discussion I can find of why he made that choice). Instead, he is sticking with gnat-4.6 for wheezy instead. The result is there is no Debian gnat-4,7 package that is consistent with gcc-4.7. What is even more concerning is there is no later versions of gnat (such as gnat-4.7 or gnat-4.8 which was just released) even in experimental so it might be quite a while before there is proper modern support for gnat and Ada packaged for Debian again.
So it appears my choices are the following: (1) Start over with a gcc-4.6-based tool chain to be compatible with the existing gnat-4.6 package. I prefer not to take this choice because gcc-4.7 has some interesting stuff in it including some noticeable efficiency improvements. (2) Just forget about gnat and Ada altogether. I prefer not to take this choice since I like to periodically test Jerry's work on the Ada bindings and examples. (3)??? How do you get around the issue of missing modern gnat packages for your Debian unstable platform? Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
