[Mingw-users] Re: Clock/Time problems with GNAT

[Stefan B. <sb...@sb...>]

Danny Smith wrote:
> Stefan Bellon wrote:

[snip]

> > When not using this patch, the built libraries cannot be linked
> > against because the target ranlib hasn't processed them. I think it
> > would be nicer if "i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib" could be replaced with
> > something like "@RANLIB_FOR_TARGET@" but this didn't seem to work.
> >
> > Where should I submit those patches? To mainstream GCC or to you?
> > You suggest submitting the stdcall bug to GCC, but is it fixed
> > there quickly?

> If you submit the stdcall bug report to GCC  (against gcc.3.4.2)

Ok, I have done this right now (#20515). I hope I haven't forgotten to
include some important bits. :-}

> I'll submit a patch (against gcc trunk).  The #ifdef
> TARGET_IS_PE_COFF hack will only work with 3.4.x , I have a cleaner
> patch that gets rid of both #ifdef _WIN32's  in ada/decl.c.  (The
> second ifdef _WIN32 may trigger other  link errors when importing
> data from dll's) 

Ah, that's good to hear!

> The ada maintainers don't tend to worry too much about non-trunk
> bugs, so I'll put a local patch into the mingw 3.4.4 sources, which
> Debian tends to use.too

Thanks a lot for your quick support!

> I'll check shortly to see if the ranlib bug is fixed in GCC head.  If
> not that should have a separate bug report.

Nice. :-)

-- 
Stefan Bellon