Benjamin Place wrote:
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You need a binary gnat to build gnat from source.
gnu.org doesn't have any binaries that'll run on OS X.
macada.org does, but can I make a package that's
binary-only? That would be fine, I guess. Maybe I
could make a source package that depends on the binary
package.
I think the line should be drawn precisely between these two
possibilities (but this is open for discussion, of course):
Making a binary-only package, or downloading the precompiled madaca
stuff as part of your source and installing it into /usr/local/ada, I
would not consider compatible with Fink's philosophy.
OTOH, requiring the user to do this and having your package check
whether the user did it, I would consider acceptable.
For a while we had a package (gnuplot) that did download a precompiled
binary (aquaterm) as part of its build process, but this was always
considered an anomaly, and it was a relief when aquaterm could finally
be built as a normal Fink package.
--
Martin
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