Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2010-01-24 Thread Rodrigo (ros)
Hi porters, Some users experience problems upgrading Yabb form 2.1 to 2.4 because they don't really read the Yabb install procedure carefully. Even upgrade isn't destructive, I think it will be good to add those few lines in the UPGRADING file to prevent users. AFFECTS: users of www/yab

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-18 Thread freebsd-ports
Status update. I've now begun producing regular builds from GCC SVN for GCC, G++, GNAT and fortran on 7.2 amd64. The build logs are published here: http://gcc.coreland.ath.cx/ I'm hoping this will increase awareness of regressions before they make their way back into releases (the formal GCC r

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, freebsd-po...@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

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread freebsd-ports
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 \ --ena

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote: On 2009-11-11 14:48:35, Daniel Eischen wrote: /gnat/gpl-2009/src/GNAT/obj/./gcc/xgcc -B/gnat/gpl-2009/src/GNAT/obj/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2/bin/ -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/x86_

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread freebsd-ports
On 2009-11-11 14:48:35, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > /gnat/gpl-2009/src/GNAT/obj/./gcc/xgcc -B/gnat/gpl-2009/src/GNAT/obj/./gcc/ > > -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2/bin/ > > -B/usr/local/x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2/lib/ -isystem > > /usr/local/x86_64-unknown-freebsd7.2/include -isystem > > /u

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote: On 2009-11-08 00:06:16, Daniel Eischen wrote: Patches for amd64 support are also welcome. I thought you were going to do a port for GNAT-gpl amd64? 'Lo. I just tried to compile the vanilla GNAT-GPL 2009 sources today and came across

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-11 Thread freebsd-ports
On 2009-11-08 00:06:16, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Patches for amd64 support are also welcome. I thought you were > going to do a port for GNAT-gpl amd64? 'Lo. I just tried to compile the vanilla GNAT-GPL 2009 sources today and came across the following error: /gnat/gpl-2009/src/GNAT/obj/./gcc/

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-08 Thread freebsd-ports
On 2009-11-07 22:06:36, Mark Linimon wrote: > > There were several more working, but a recent compiler update broke them. > At that time the portmgr team went ahead and marked the ports "broken". > That both advises users that they don't compile, and also triggers a > periodic email to the ports@ m

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-08 Thread freebsd-ports
'Lo, On 2009-11-08 00:06:16, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > The packages are way out of date and don't build with the newer > GNAT's. Patches welcome. Right! > > PROBLEM 3. Compiler version chaos and lack of architecture support > > > >We have: > > > > lang/gnat (GPL 2009 version, i

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-07 Thread Daniel Eischen
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote: [Apologies for the possible double-post, I mistyped the From: address] Hello. It's come to my attention that the FreeBSD ports system has very poor support for Ada and Ada software in general. A quick search on Freshports for 'Ada' show

Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-07 Thread Mark Linimon
It's true that the Ada packages have suffered a fair amount of bit-rot in the past year or so. I'm happy to see someone stepping forward to work on them. On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 09:29:36PM +, freebsd-po...@coreland.ath.cx wrote: > PROBLEM 1. Lack of packages > > Of the 10 packages liste

Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system

2009-11-07 Thread freebsd-ports
[Apologies for the possible double-post, I mistyped the From: address] Hello. It's come to my attention that the FreeBSD ports system has very poor support for Ada and Ada software in general. A quick search on Freshports for 'Ada' shows the following packages: devel/adabooch- No de