Re: [Plplot-devel] Intermittent Ada example build failures are now gone again!

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2018-04-15 11:15-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Hi Jerry:
[...]
> So once this Ada build issue appeared again for me yesterday after all
> those previous successful hardware checks, I did a google search for
> the terms (without the quotes) "gnatmake intermittent build error" and
> found
> <https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=65451>
> which was a bug report in 2015 about intermittent Ada build issues
> which was immediately fixed back then.  However, my gnat version (=
> 4.9.2) is from 2014 so I don't have that bugfix and I am pretty sure
> at this stage that bug 65451 is the issue that is causing the
> intermittent Ada build issues for me. Therefore, I plan to use the
> -DENABLE_ada=OFF option for my further testing until I can get access
> to a later version of the Ada build tools myself, and I suggest others
> who currently don't have access to Ada build tools with bug 65451
> fixed should do the same.

Just to follow up for Debian Buster with gnat-7 (as opposed to gnat-4 that I
was using for Debian Jessie) the first test of Ada has been a complete success.
See commit 994723471 for the details of the tests I ran.

Alan
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