[csw-maintainers] GCC 4.6 progress

[Peter FELECAN]

"Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:

> 2011/8/15 Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org>:
>> Are you trying to build with Sun's C compiler? (I never succeeded to build
>> gcc with that compiler) In the affirmative you'll have a heavy time
>> generating the Ada compiler.
>
> This time has just begun!
>
> The story goes like this: I got PPL and Cloog in place and tried
> compiling adding Ada to the list of language frontends.  The GCC build
> system complained that GNAT is missing.  I thought I would build a
> separate package with GNAT, but it turns out that it's built by GCC as
> part of Ada, so there is a circular dependency: you need Ada to build
> Ada.

The best and easiest method to build gcc is to use gcc, especially if
you wish to have an Ada frontend. This is why I asked if you build with
Sun Studio or gcc.

-- 
Peter