On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:40 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:58 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 11:01 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:56:04 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > Any ideas about reinstating the gnattools-cross target in Debian by > > > > modifying the ada-libgnatvsn.diff patch? > > > > > > That would take quite a lot of effort. Actually the patch that breaks > > > cross builds is ada-link-lib.diff; it is this patch that causes the > > > tools like gnatmake to be linked dynamically rather than statically > > > against libgnat. As a consequence, libgnat becomes a host-and-target > > > library as opposed to just a target library. Patches welcome :) > > > > What was the Debian reason to link gnatmake dynamically instead of > > statically? > > Follow-up: Looks like the ada-link-lib.diff patch was introduced for > gnat-4.1 in 2006 already. Additionally, from what I can see libada is > not built by default any longer, only configured. What is/was the > purpose of that library?
Anybody: Why was (some) this patch made?? It is a large sidestep from upstream, and is now six years old. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
