On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:20:42PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > Ok, fine with me. This means however that GCC source package will be > duplicated (starting from 3.1, as it has been said).
Perhaps we should look at toolchain-source? I don't like it as a solution, but it already exists. > Once GNAT has been ported on every platform, we will see whether it makes > sense to find another mechanism (interesting challenge to Debian, we > will be willing to build different binary packages from the same source > depending on what packages are/can be installed). > > Concerning the port of GNAT, I've done the Sparc and PowerPC one and that > was quite straightforward. I understand that Alpha may be much harder > because it will be the first Linux/64 bits port. On the other hand, there's quite a bit of good Alpha support in GNAT already, so it shouldn't be too bad. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer