The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread Mikhail T.
01/-10/37 14:59, lini...@freebsd.org wrote: portname: devel/adabindx description:An Ada-binding to the X Window System and *tif maintainer:po...@freebsd.org status: BROKEN deprecated because: has been broken for 3 months expiration date:2010-01-08 build errors:

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread freebsd-ports
It looks like a noticeable share of the ports listed have one thing in common -- they depend on Ada. Various gnat-ports would not even build on anything but i386... Is Ada-support really in such a bad shape by the GNU-project, or is it just a FreeBSD problem? 'Lo. Current situtation

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
- Original Message From: freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx To: John Merryweather Cooper john_m_coo...@yahoo.com Cc: Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com; ka...@lovetemple.net; eisc...@vigrid.com; freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 10:56:38 AM

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, John Merryweather Cooper wrote: Well, the compiler needs to be upgraded to the latest version. Linux gets a compiler out of the box, but we have to bend one to shape. Most things stay the same, but there are always subtle differences. I'd be happy to help do this (as I'm

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 06:56:38PM +, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote: I created the lang/gnat-gcc44 port a couple of months ago and have worked to ensure that it works on 7/8 i386/x86_64. Unfortunately, there won't be support for other platforms until somebody else decides to do the

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread John Merryweather Cooper
- Original Message From: Daniel Eischen deisc...@freebsd.org To: John Merryweather Cooper john_m_coo...@yahoo.com Cc: Mikhail T. mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com; po...@freebsd.org; ka...@lovetemple.net Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 11:59:05 AM Subject: Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD

Re: The state of Ada (Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion)

2010-01-08 Thread Mikhail T.
01/08/10 14:59, Daniel Eischen написав(ла): All the ports that I saw that were broken, were broken *because* the compiler (lang/gnat) was updated. Those ports seemed to be vastly out of date and didn't build with the latest GPL gnat from ACT. Well, I tried to fix one, but my system is amd64,