Re: [Ticket #16549] gcc43: patch to add Ada support
On Oct 7, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Martin Krischik wrote: The Trac Ticket #16549 [1] now open for 3 weeks and it seem to be stalled. And it seems that the ticket is stalled over the fundamental problem on how to handle self hosted systems [2]. Now I still would like to go ahead so I would like to put the problem up for discussion. Both on user as well as development list, as both parties are affected on the possible outcome of discussion. I, for one, am waiting rather anxiously the outcome of Martin's good efforts so that I can properly support my Ada binding to the PLplot package (as well as conduct my ordinary work). As a user, I don't care how the compiler comes into existence, just that I have an Ada 2005 compiler (4.3+) that runs on PPC with OS X 10.5.x. Jerry ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
[Ticket #16549] gcc43: patch to add Ada support
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The Trac Ticket #16549 [1] now open for 3 weeks and it seem to be stalled. And it seems that the ticket is stalled over the fundamental problem on how to handle self hosted systems [2]. Now I still would like to go ahead so I would like to put the problem up for discussion. Both on user as well as development list, as both parties are affected on the possible outcome of discussion. Now I hope there is an outcome, otherwise I'll be forces to Plan-C: a complete fork into the GNU Ada Project [1]. Which at least for the potential users would be the worse outcome. To understand the problem I suggest to read up the wikipedia page [2]. As you see in a normal binary based distribution the normal users would never notice as the developers and packagers would take care of the difficult part. And they should have the experience as well to deal with it. However MacPorts is source based so one need a user friendly which is a little trickier. My current solution is a variant in gcc43 which can only be used when certain pre-condition are meed. However it was suggested that the Portfile should download and install everything needed on its own. That would result in a rather complex Portfile. At compl.lang.ada it was suggested that a separate gnat Portfile so the gcc* maintainer is not burdened by this approach. So what is everybody thinking. Regards Martin [1] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16549 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting [3] http://gnuada.sourceforge.net - -- Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iD8DBQFI7FOPijwKaHyem9cRAqrhAKDZ6I1YzhCUxNBwcVEsxT/tQEXmkQCfYXCG E8mrybxOROepqAVRK8lIAk0= =06w9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
