Re: [Ada] GCC Ada bootstrap suggestion

2008-07-31 Thread Daniel Kraft
Arnaud Charlet wrote: For half a year now, I've been working on the GCC Fortran front-end; but I'm also quite interested in Ada as a language. However, I don't quite like the idea that one needs a working Ada compiler to bootstrap the Ada front-end. Well, it's the same with a C compiler to

Re: [Ada] GCC Ada bootstrap suggestion

2008-07-31 Thread Arnaud Charlet
Well, the point is, I'm using a GNU/Linux system I mainly built from scratch, so there's no easy package-installer available for me and I've to built everything from source (which is, of course, my own fault). My system started out with a gcc C compiler, so I could easily bootstrap and

Re: [Ada] GCC Ada bootstrap suggestion

2008-07-31 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 18:42 +0200, Daniel Kraft wrote: With Ada, however, I'm at least not aware of another compiler I could bootstrap using my C compiler and use that one subsequentally to bootstrap GNAT. At the moment, I'm trying to bootstrap it using a binary GNAT 3.15p which was also