On Nov 13, 2018, Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Please let me know if there are objections to this change in the next >> few days, e.g., if enabling C and C++ for an Ada-only build is too >> onerous. It is certainly possible to rework gnattools build machinery >> so that it uses CC and CXX as detected by the top-level configure if we >> can't find xgcc and xg++ in ../gcc.
> I really wonder why we not _always_ do this for consistency given we > already require a host Ada compiler. Sorry, I can't tell what the 'this' refers to. Enabling C and C++ for an Ada-only build? Reworking gnattools build machinery to use top-level CC and CXX? Something else? FWIW, I see the the point of using the just-built gcc/g++ if it's there and usable: considering the checks for different versions of Ada compilers, you really want to use the last stage of the bootstrap to build tools linked with the runtime built with it. It seems to me you'd run into a catch-22 without that. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás-GNUChe
