* Ludovic Brenta: >>> I think it is premature to speculate about the outcome of this thread. >>> Moreover, the discussion so far has been only about which languages to >>> enable *by default*, not about changing the bootstrapping process >>> completely. Nothing in this thread suggests that a change to the Debian >>> packaging should be necessary. >> >> Nevertheless, I guess I should mention the version discrepancy on that >> list. In the past, bootstrapping with the C and Ada compilers built >> from separate GCC releases was not supported. > > What version discrepancy? i.e. between the version of what and the > version of what?
gnatgcc and g++ (4.6 vs 4.7 in wheezy). > Note that gnat-X.Y contains its own copy of the C compiler > (/usr/bin/gnatgcc) so there is no situation where the C and Ada > compilers have different versions. There's no gnatg++, and GCC is now mostly compiled as C++ (but not exclusively). Mixing different C and C++ compiler versions is probably not supported upstream. >> What's the reason for the version difference in Debian? Better >> tooling support outside GCC for older releases? > > I'll be able to answer when I undertsand what you mean by "the version > difference in Debian" (i.e. between what and what?) Why isn't GNAT built from the regular gcc-4.7 source package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
