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Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition
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On Thursday, August 20, 2020 at 7:36:50 AM UTC+10, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 19/08/2020 21:50, Simon Wright wrote: 
> > "Luke A. Guest" <lag...@archeia.com> writes: 
> > 
> >> On 19/08/2020 19:09, Andreas ZEURCHER wrote: 
> >>> If multiple well-skilled people cannot build a GPL-licensed source 
> >>> code with the source code as provided and instructions as provided, 
> >>> wouldn't that be a black-&-white flagrant violation of the GPL? The 
> >>> natural conclusion seems to be: either the source 
> >> 
> >> Every component from AdaCore is an absolute fucker to build. 
> > 
> > The "front-line" components (gnatcoll*, gprbuild, xmlada & friends) 
> > build pretty reliably for me, even taking the master branch. 
> >
> That's only after you work out which commit to build, after many 
> attempts at building.
I think that I also found this. Sometimes, the master worked, occasionally the stable (?) worked but I'd sometimes (often?) have to resort to an earlier build to achieve success!