Ada for Fedora ARM

Pavel Zhukov pavel at zhukoff.net
Wed Jan 9 15:35:28 UTC 2013


Hello. 

I've seen your email in SEG-ARM list and I'm interested in. Unfortunately I left my ARM
device in Russia during reallocation and can playing with ARM only in
qemu.. 



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Best regards, Pavel Zhukov 
mailto:pavel at zhukoff.net
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013, Björn Persson wrote:

> Julian Leyh wrote:
> > I would be very interested in getting gnat working on Fedora
> > ARM. Currently, the gcc.spec only enables it for x86, x86_64, ia64, ppc,
> > ppc64, and alpha.
> > 
> > Is anybody working on enabling it for ARM?
> 
> Not that I know of. I'm afraid I won't have time for that myself
> anytime soon. (Have you asked the ARM SIG?)
> 
> > If not, what would be the best way to start doing this? Cross-compile
> > Ada-enabled GCC from x86(_64) Fedora for bootstrapping gnat? Or
> > cross-compile from Debian/ARM, which already has ported gnat?
> 
> Both of those methods should work in theory as far as I know. I don't
> know which would be easiest in practice.
> 
> Once you have a working compiler you need to get a binary package into
> Koji temporarily (which I'm not sure how to do), and talk to Jakub
> Jelinek about enabling the new platform in gcc.spec. Then ask Panu
> Matilainen to add the new platform to GNAT_arches.
> 
> I'll make the necessary changes in directories.gpr if you can tell me
> what "uname -i" outputs on ARM systems and whether libraries should be
> in /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. I currently have "arm" there but I suspect
> it's not that easy.
> 
> Björn Persson



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