On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 18:16 -0700, Jon Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I just installed Ubuntu latest on my new laptop, and when attempting
> to get GHDL installed I found out about this:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696548
> 
> 
> it isn't available in either Debian 7 or Ubuntu.  Anyone here feel
> like picking this up?  I would, but I haven't yet been able to
> successfully build GHDL and I know others here have....

TL/DR : if you're not up to building gcc from source, sorry there will
be a wait.

I knew Wesley was looking into this but I didn't know he gave up from
time pressures; he only reported this to Debian, not here.

The underlying problem is that Debian Gnat(Ada) is some way behind
Debian gcc (4.6.3 intead of 4.7.2 last time I looked) and the Debian Ada
maintainer was planning to bring them back into synch for 4.8.

Now I don't know where he is with that, but I'll ask.

Meanwhile GHDL doesn't build with gcc4.8 yet, though I think I might
have that in progress.

Then I wouldn't have a clue how to start packaging ghdl for Debian,
though at least I might know who to ask.

So at the moment, if you want ghdl under debian (which is what I have)
the recommended route is to FIRST build gcc4.7.2 - into its own location
(perhaps /usr/local/ or /opt/gcc4.7.2/) from the gnu.org source package.
(There are a couple of fiddles required to overcome problems with Debian
multilibs, which mean a bunch of files aren't where the rompiler
expects)

THEN use this new compiler to build ghdl from source (SVN revision 150
plus my OSVVM patch).

- Brian



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