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Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 18:25:47 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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On 05/22/2012 10:25 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On May 19, 12:24 am, Andris Pavenis<andris DOT pave DOT  DOT  DOT  AT iki DOT fi>  wrote:
>>
>> This is announcement of DJGPP port of GCC-4.7.0
>
> First of all, big thanks for your efforts!
>
>> ada470d.zip     Documentation for GNU Ada compiler (note that only
>>       cross-compiler RPM package is available, but not native compiler
>>       for DJGPP)
>>       ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ada470d.zip
>
> What happened here? What went wrong? I don't expect any miracles here,
> esp. with no upstream help, but this can't be good, can it?  :-(
>
> The only "obvious" change I can find is this, and surely that didn't
> break it??

At least one of Ada tools (gnatmake if I remember correctly) failed to build for DJGPP. I wrote "at 
least one" as I do not know whether there would be more problems later. Fixing this problem would 
require noticeably more knowledge about Ada language that I have. This problem does not appear for 
cross-compiler so there is no need to leave Ada out when building cross-compiler RPMs.

>
> "
> Ada:
> The command-line option -feliminate-unused-debug-types has been re-
> enabled by default, as it is for the other languages, leading to a
> reduction in debug info size of 12.5% and more for relevant cases, as
> well as to a small compilation speedup.
> "
>
>> =========================================
>>
>> See
>>       http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6
>> for more information about GCC-4.7.0 and about changes in comparison
>> with earlier versions

Well: replacements 's/4.6.3/4.7.0/g', 's/4.63/4.70/g' and 's/463/470/g' were done and still one 
forgotten. Of course there were other changes as well as one can see. I did not however write 
announcement from scratch.

>
> Or this page, even.     ;-)
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/
>
>> There is also my web page about DJGPP port of GCC
>>
>> http://www.iki.fi/andris.pavenis/djgpp/gcc
>>
>> I cannot promise however, that I'll update it very often.
>> However new versions may appear there earlier (including ones not available
>> from ftp://ftp.delorie.com).
>
> Which will ... never mind, forgot I already accidentally checked the
> ZIP Picker, it already has 4.7.0 offered. Wouldn't 4.6.3 be a safer
> choice since Ada isn't available? (Though admittedly that's less
> interesting to most C/C++ people.) Ah, well, I guess it doesn't matter
> (and I never learned Ada, sadly, only subsets of other Wirth-ian
> languages).
>

Andris