"Luke A. Guest" <lagu...@archeia.com> writes:
> Hi, > > Can we add the following patch to the toolchain.eclass? I want to stop > having to mess with this overlay. The diff can be generated by > grabbing the repo https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-overlay and running > ./scripts/diff_eclass.sh. It'd be useful to send the whole lot with `git send-email` as proper patches which could be `git am`'d. > > The only thing I'm not sure about is the BDEPEND stuff. It looks OK from a glance. > > The reason for doing this is because gnat-gpl is dead, more info can > be found here https://www.adacore.com/community. > > The > https://github.com/Lucretia/ada-overlay/tree/master/dev-lang/ada-bootstrap > ebuilds provide bootstrap compilers, the archives are hosted on > dropbox, from 9.5.0 -> 14. > What is going to be a problem is using these. We'll need to build our own. > The scripts/build-bootstrap.sh script will build a bootstrap for a > particular version based on an env var. > But if this works, I guess that's fine. It would be nice if there were some we could use from elsewhere somewhat-official that other distros are using, but if they don't exist, I guess we have to live with it. We need to do the same for D. > As for anything in dev-ada/* well, the ada guy would need to work on > that really, I'm not really experienced enough to handle it properly. > Kind of curious as to your interest in Ada if you're not experienced enough - not intended derogatorily, just know you've been interested in Ada for a while so I wonder if dev-ada/* is somehow that different or what.. I also wouldn't want to merge something if it's then going to conflict with anything in dev-ada/*, so at least some coordination is required. (To that end, cc'd toolchain@ and ada@.) > Given GCC is masked up to :10 now, the gnat gpr tools / libs might be > easier to get going with single versions covering numerous toolchain > versions. > > Alire would need to be added at some point, http://alire.ada.dev/ to > provide an easier way to get packages going. > > I originally envisioned gnatmake, gprbuild eclasses to cover building > simple projects with one entry point (gnatmake) and projects > (gprbuild). I think an alire based eclass would need to be added as > well. > > Thanks, > Luke. > > [2. text/x-patch; gentoo-diff.patch]...
