From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!voer-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.fr7!fx06.fr7.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brian Drummond Subject: Re: Ada's ranking of popularity at IEEE Spectrum Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <72b1318a-2eb6-4129-af9b-5bcfbb329c5b@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.49.20.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: 1404749481 62.49.20.82 (Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:11:21 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:11:21 UTC Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:11:21 GMT X-Received-Body-CRC: 2862378789 X-Received-Bytes: 1637 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20776 Date: 2014-07-07T16:11:21+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 14:33:29 +0100, Simon Wright wrote: > Brian Drummond writes: > >> Because most people building gcc use the configure option >> --enable-language-=c,c++ >> instead of --enable-languages=c,c++,ada >> >> And most of the binaries for most of the distros are built that way. >> Ada is offered as an optional extra if you already know about it and >> specifically ask for it - AND it isn't simply missing > > ... and the host GCC has a working Ada compiler. True, but as we're talking about binaries for distributions, that translates to "at least one host has a working Ada compiler" at which point, that host can cross-compile for the target distribution. In principle, anyway. - Brian