----- Original Message ---- From: Mikhail T. <mi+t...@aldan.algebra.com> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_coo...@yahoo.com> Cc: po...@freebsd.org; ka...@lovetemple.net; eisc...@vigrid.com; m...@freebsd.org; jo...@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, January 8, 2010 11:37:37 AM Subject: Maintaining compiler front-ends (Re: The state of Ada)
01/08/10 13:10, John Merryweather Cooper написав(ла): > Well, the [Ada -mi] compiler needs to be upgraded to the latest version. > Linux gets a compiler out of the box, but we have to bend one to shape. I remain convinced, that the "bending into shape" ought to begin with making the additional GNU compiler front-ends (be they Ada, or Lisp, Java, Fortran, Pascal, Objective C, etc.) addable to an already existing C-compiler. I find it crazy, that every such front end currently downloads and builds its own gcc-core-SOMEVERSION, instead of using the base gcc or DEPEND-ing on lang/gccSOMEVERSION. Yes, I am well aware, that this is, how GNU people do things. No, I don't think, there is nothing FreeBSD can do about it... Starting with making all such compilers use common binutils. (Perhaps, these can even be provided by the base -- NetBSD does just that, for example...) Once done, ports of front-ends will no longer have to each deal with the back-end making the maintainership easier and thus giving us better ports... -mi Common binutils would help alot. In general, it would also be excellent to return to a schema where languages are considered plugins to GCC. The savings in disk space, build trouble, and compiler porting could be substantial. jmc _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
