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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:27:08 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: `lang/gcc33': why without ADA & Java?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310131924540.21845@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>

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> Why our gcc-3.3.1 port doesn't build & install ADA part of
> gcc? We don't have separate ports for it, too...

Because nobody (including GNAT) really cared very much about the Ada
frontend that is part of GCC.

Also, GNAT is quite a beast, so it probably should be built and packaged
separately from lang/gcc3x in any case.

(Note that GCJ _is_ built by default.)

Gerald
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Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)   gerald@pfeifer.com   http://www.pfeifer.com/gerald/



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