On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Pavel Zhukov <pavel(a)zhukoff.net> wrote:
On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 07:11:40 PM Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi list(s),
> >
> > We still doesn't have gnat compiler for %{arm} in Fedora. We (Ada
> > community) have compiled gcc with ada support using gcc-4.8.2 src.rpm
> > and tested in. It seems workable. At least we were able to compile most
> > of the
> > packages from the stack with it.
> > I'd like to discuss way how to get it in Fedora (chicken-egg problem
> > should be solved).
>
> That's relatively straight forward. We need a documented process to
> get it done. Once we have that I can sort it out with rel-eng but we
> would need the gcc maintainer to review/approve it.
>
> Generally what happens is that it would be built (or imported) into a
> side tag build. I suspect it'll be using something like a cross
> compiled version of ada which is then used to compile a native built
> version of ada which is then tagged into rawhide at which point the
> rest of the ada stack would be rebuilt.
Yes. We cross-compiled bootstrap and compiled native version using it. It's
original Fedora gcc without any modifications (just added arm to the gnat
arches list) and applied short patch [1]
It was the long process [2] in qemu with all tests performed. I'm going to
recompile it once more time using Cubieboard and move to documentation step
after.
If you document it first I can test it on decent physical HW which
should be a lot faster to save you some time.
Peter