Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

[Daniel Eischen]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, freebsd-ports at coreland.ath.cx wrote:

> On 2009-11-11 15:07:36, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I see.  Did you configure it with host=i386-unknown-freebsd
>> and target=amd64-unknown-freebsd (or is it x86_64?)?
>>
>> It looks like libgcc might not have support for x86_64
>> FreeBSD??
>
> Full configure line was:
>
>  ../src/configure \
>    --enable-languages="c,ada" \
>    --disable-libada \
>    --host=x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2 \
>    --target=x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2 \
>    --build=x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2
>
> ...which is more or less what I build GCC with.

I would try it piecemeal.  Try just building the target
compiler (--host=i386-unknown-freebsd7.2 and
--target=x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2).

> It does seem as if support is missing - perhaps removed by AdaCore?
>
> The system compiler is at 4.2.1 on my AMD64 machine, so I'm guessing
> that support was there and was removed?

I think Adacore takes a snapshot of gcc at the time,
it might not be the actual release.

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DE