On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 09:16:26AM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > Hi Chris, > > > has anyone managed this with success? i can built ada programs just > > fine with "gnatmake file.adb" when the gnat 3.15p binary distribution > > is at the end of my $PATH, but i cannot build gcc-4.0 after a > > configure --enable-languages=ada with it at the end of my $PATH > > I guess your question is: does the Ada bootstrap really need to use > gcc directly on Ada files (which will fail since gcc-3.3.4 from your > path will be used), or does it in fact only use gcc spawned by gnatmake > (which will use gcc-2.8.1), in which case the test for Ada support is > too strict? > > > will gcc-4.0.0 build with gcc-2.8.1? (what ships with gnat-3.15p, the latest > > binary distribution i could find...) > > It will. Since the final gcc-4.0.0 binary you end up with is built > using gcc-4.0.0 itself, it should be the same binary as if you'd started > with something else. that worked like a dream. now if only the gnat-3.15p binary distribution for solaris worked on solaris 9 i'd be golden =) thanks so much for your suggestion!
