Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-29 Thread Martin Strubel
Hi Brian, Also my patch hasn't covered it all : there is still one patch to apply for 64-bit builds or not for 32-bit, nobody seems to have got to the bottom of that issue yet... I just looked it up, for my internal DEB package (tested on 64 bit only) it seems that I actually wrote a

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Strubel
Hi, Sometimes it is better to move the troubled kid out of the community. Having a clean-room version of the gcc version compatible with ghdl in a location where apt-get cannot touch it seems very much a way around the current problem. Problem for me as a GHDL user is that building gcc in

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-27 Thread Brian Drummond
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 09:05 +0200, Martin Strubel wrote: Hi, I'd also second the clean room approach. After a few failures with various compiler versions for the svn150, I finally got a DEB out of a purely sandboxed build procecure based on a slightly patched gcc 4.7.2. I'm curious what you

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Strubel
Hi Brian, I'm curious what you have had to patch in 4.7.2 - is this documented or would you be willing to attach the patch or add a ticket to gna.org? https://gna.org/bugs/?group=ghdl I'm afraid it was a kind of blindly hacking away action to make it build, and I don't really recall the

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-27 Thread Brian Drummond
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 11:05 +0200, Martin Strubel wrote: Hi Brian, I'm curious what you have had to patch in 4.7.2 - is this documented or would you be willing to attach the patch or add a ticket to gna.org? https://gna.org/bugs/?group=ghdl ... But I'm sure I didn't touch any of

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-26 Thread Brian Drummond
On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 18:16 -0700, Jon Taylor wrote: Hi all, I just installed Ubuntu latest on my new laptop, and when attempting to get GHDL installed I found out about this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696548 it isn't available in either Debian 7 or Ubuntu.

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-26 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
Sometimes it is better to move the troubled kid out of the community. Having a clean-room version of the gcc version compatible with ghdl in a location where apt-get cannot touch it seems very much a way around the current problem. Problem for me as a GHDL user is that building gcc in /usr/local

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-26 Thread David Koontz
On 27 May 2013, at 10:04 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem svenn.bjer...@googlemail.com wrote: Sometimes it is better to move the troubled kid out of the community. Having a clean-room version of the gcc version compatible with ghdl in a location where apt-get cannot touch it seems very much a way

Re: [Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-26 Thread Peter Gavin
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:13 PM, David Koontz diogra...@gmail.com wrote: There's Peter Gavin's ghdl PPA as a model, this one for ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10: https://launchpad.net/~pgavin/+archive/ghdl Mind, it takes a leap of faith to trust someones Personal Package Archive. I've recently

[Ghdl-discuss] Debian package maintainer has retired

2013-05-25 Thread Jon Taylor
Hi all, I just installed Ubuntu latest on my new laptop, and when attempting to get GHDL installed I found out about this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696548 it isn't available in either Debian 7 or Ubuntu. Anyone here feel like picking this up? I would, but I haven't yet