From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 8 05:28:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1020106568F for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:28:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.netplex.net (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A8558FC0C for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 05:28:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.netplex.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id nA856GX6025452; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:06:16 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.netplex.net) X-Greylist: Message whitelisted by DRAC access database, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (mail.netplex.net [204.213.176.10]); Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:06:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:06:16 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: freebsd-ports@coreland.ath.cx In-Reply-To: <20091107212936.GB85348@logik.internal.network> Message-ID: References: <20091107212936.GB85348@logik.internal.network> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org, ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org Subject: Re: Improving Ada support on FreeBSD and in the ports system X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:28:38 -0000 On Sat, 7 Nov 2009, freebsd-ports@coreland.ath.cx wrote: > [Apologies for the possible double-post, I mistyped the From: address] > > Hello. > > It's come to my attention that the FreeBSD ports system has very poor support > for Ada and Ada software in general. > > A quick search on Freshports for 'Ada' shows the following packages: > > devel/adabooch - No dependencies registered! > devel/adacurses - lang/gnat > devel/adasdl - lang/gnat > net/adasockets - lang/gnat (broken) > textproc/xmlada - lang/gnat-gcc41 (broken) > textproc/xmlada-gps - lang/gnat (broken) > x11-toolkits/gtkada - lang/gnat (broken) > x11-toolkits/gtkada-devel - lang/gnat (broken) > x11-toolkits/gtkada-gcc - lang/gnat-gcc41 (broken) > x11-toolkits/gtkada-gps - lang/gnat (broken) > > I'm aware there are more packages than this in the ports sytem. The situation > doesn't get any better the more you read... > > The problems any user of Ada on FreeBSD faces are: > > PROBLEM 1. Lack of packages (as shown above) > > Of the 10 packages listed, only three of those (maybe two) actually > work. The packages are way out of date and don't build with the newer GNAT's. Patches welcome. > PROBLEM 2. No choice in the use of compiler > > The Ada world is essentially divided between the GCC version of GNAT > that can produce executables not tainted by the GPL (GNAT-FSF) and the > GPL version (GNAT-GPL) from AdaCore which can't. > > Debian, for example, only uses GNAT-FSF (but one can, of course, > just download GNAT-GPL from AdaCore and use it without issue). > > PROBLEM 3. Compiler version chaos and lack of architecture support > > We have: > > lang/gnat (GPL 2009 version, i386 only) Patches for amd64 support are also welcome. I thought you were going to do a port for GNAT-gpl amd64? -- DE