Hi Fernando,
Fernando Oleo Blanco writes:
> I have talked with some people over at IRC and they recommended the use
> of the smaller GCC-Ada/GNAT binaries from Debian (even from older
> releases) and try to build an up-to-date Ada compiler toolchain with it.
>
> However, that would be a lot of w
Thank you Denis and Ricardo for your input.
Denis, regarding the existence of low-level Ada libraries for hardware
development, we do have quite a few! And I would be interested in
packaging a couple of them. One would be the very well-known BareBones
Runtimes [1] and also SweetAda [2]. Having
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes:
> - The haskell is not and was never bootstrapped from source. Though
> the binaries used to bootstrap it changed over time.
We do, however, build GHC 4 from source; there is only a small amount of
*generated* C files that we currently can’t avoid. We build up
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:47:41 +
Fernando Oleo Blanco wrote:
> Dear Guix community,
Hi,
> Why did I tell all of this?
> Because I would like to add GCC-Ada to Guix and I am fully aware of
> the work that the Guix and the #bootstrappable people are doing
> towards a fully transparent compilatio
Dear Guix community,
I would like to bring once again [1] the discussion regarding the
addition of a modern Ada compiler to Guix. In this case, GCC-Ada, aka GNAT.
TL;DR: GCC-Ada/GNAT cannot be bootstrapped. I would like to package a
binary up until a bootstrap path is available; which is alread
