Well, incidentally I was working on "toolchainasing" gnat (a gcc
based Ada
compiler, basically just another frontend) and pestered toolchain
people on
irc regarding similar matters. Basically it came down to:
toolchain.eclass
and eselect-compiler are not for stuff not in gcc, so I had to
create my own
ones (gnatbuild.eclass and eselect-gnat), a bit simpler versions
actually :).
I could not inherit toolchain.eclass either, only copy the relevant
parts of
it..
A due notice: this was discussed already like half a year ago
(although when I
announced progress here on -dev no comments followed), so if the
things have
chaged since then I will be interested to know too..
Well, I'm not against that support being in eselect-compiler, and in
fact I think it'd be nice... It's just not a priority on my list, so
if you'd like to contribute changes which allow support for what you
want without needlessly complicating things for those who don't want
to use these advanced features, then I'm more than willing to
incorporate them.
--Jeremy
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