Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink for Ada ?

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Vincent DIEMUNSCH wrote:
> Hello Alexander,
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> Some GNAT sources are in Ada so GNAT needs to be compiled by GNAT,
> and therfore a source package would be difficult to do, at first step
> :-)).
>
> But we could simply add the GNAT compiler as a binary package, no ?
> It wouldn't require too much work to get the current versions of GNAT for
> OS X as binary packages and put them into Fink ?
>
> Were can I find documentation on how to do that ?
>
> Vincent
>
No real clue here.  I'm familiar with a few packages that bootstrap from
precompiled binaries, such as sbcl.  That'd probably be the way to go.
>
>
> 2009/4/30 Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...
> <mailto:ale...@gm...>>
>
>     Vincent DIEMUNSCH wrote:
>     > I am new to fink and I like it much.
>     > I make some development in Ada with the free GNAT compiler and I
>     > wonder if it could be possible to
>     > have the GNAT compiler under fink ?
>     If you're able to make up a package for it, you'd be more than welcome
>     to. :-)
>
>     If you're asking if somebody else can do it, then the answer is:
>     possibly, time and interest permitting.
>     > And Is it possible to have modules
>     > written in Ada that could be
>     > compiled by GNAT as Fink packages or is Fink restrained to C
>     programs ?
>     >
>     >
>     That would be possible, if GNAT were in Fink.  We have perl modules,
>     python modules, ruby modules, packages that are compiled from Fortran
>     source code--the build system is sufficiently flexible to handle most
>     things that are thrown at it.
>     > Thanks for your response.
>     >
>     > Vincent
>     >
>     >
>
>
>     --
>     Alexander Hansen
>     Fink User Liaison
>
>


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Alexander Hansen
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