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

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42727; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: fulvio ciriaco <oivulf%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: marino%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42727 (gcc 34 does not compile)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:41:52 +0100 (CET)

 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
 >