Re: pkg/42727 (gcc 34 does not compile)

[fulvio ciriaco <oivulf%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hallo,
I am content with this solution, thank you
and I am not concerned with NetBSD < 5.0.
Fulvio
From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/42727 (gcc 34 does not compile)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:00:07 +0000 (UTC)

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/42727; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: marino%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Re: pkg/42727 (gcc 34 does not compile)
> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:56:47 +0000
> 
>  On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 08:25:02PM +0000, John Marino wrote:
>   >  There's really only one reason to be fooling around with gcc34 if
>   >  Ada is desired: That's if the platform in use is NetBSD 4. or
>   >  below. If the platform is NetBSD 5+, then lang/gnat-aux is the
>   >  solution for Ada, and it provides its own bootstrap if necessary.
>   >  Unfortunately, gnat-aux was never tested for NetBSD less than
>   >  version 5.0 and I would wager that it won't run on NetBSD 4.
>  >
>   >  What is the minimum platform requirement for NetBSD?
>   >  Fixing 3.4 would not be trivial.  Compiler work in general is very
>   >  difficult and time consuming.  Upgrading florist and removing
>   >  gcc34-based Ada should be the long-term plan here.
>  
>  Ok then, the submitter should use gnat-aux. I hadn't realized gcc3-ada
>  and gcc34-ada were deprecated; we should wait until after 2011Q4 is
>  branched before ripping them (both?) out, but then we should probably
>  go ahead and nuke them.
>  
>  NetBSD 4.0 is still supported, for a while at least. However, if
>  gcc34-ada doesn't work, it's probably better to fix gnat-aux for
>  NetBSD 4 (assuming anyone ever tries/cares about it) than to spend
>  time on a dead end.
>  
>   >  As an aside, the next release of gnat-aux is available and it adds
>   >  Fortran and Objective-C on top of the C, C++, and Ada that
>   >  gnat-aux-20110627 provides, so it's really a top class compiler.
>   >  The only question is if I will be allowed to get it into Q4 due to
>   >  the freeze.  I think at a minimum I would need to build all Ada
>   >  packages on both NetBSD 5.99 and DragonFly-master before this is
>   >  considers.
>  
>  That is the sort of thing that should wait until after the freeze.
>  
>  -- 
>  David A. Holland
>  dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
>