Re: Silly TARGET fix in gcc means gprconfig can find the Ada runtime

["196...@googlemail.com" <1963bib@googlemail.com>]

On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 20:01:40 UTC, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> On 10/03/2022 18:19, 196...@googlemail.com wrote: 
> > On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 17:55:30 UTC, Luke A. Guest wrote: 
> >> On 10/03/2022 16:44, 196....com wrote: 
> >>> For all those who can cursed the inability of gprconfig to find the ada runtime, a fix has been pushed into the gcc sources, https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/9467e7331188705ec16c086b77e1809c5b0aab7d. 
> >>> 
> >>> Basically, with 'gcc --dumpmachine' would return something like 'x86_64-pc-linux', but the runtime file s-oscons.ads said it was 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' giving a mismatch and the runtime never being found. 
> >>> 
> >>> After modifying compilers.xml to hunt in ../lib(.+)?/ since files are 64bit under lib64, I've built gcc-11, gprbuild & xmlada all without issues. Hooray... 
> >>> 
> >>> Must be one of the longest gubs in gnat... 
> >> On Gentoo, it is x86_64-pc-linux-gnu: 
> >> 
> >> ls /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ 
> >> bin binutils-bin gcc-bin i686-w64-mingw32 lib x86_64-w64-mingw32 
> >> 
> >> gcc -dumpmachine 
> >> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 
> >> 
> >> How does this affect us? 
> > 
> > On suse it's x86_64-suse-linux. If you were to build on redhat, it would be x86_64-redhat-linux. They would fail. I'm sure there are others.
> That doesn't answer my question. I asked whether this change will flip 
> it in the other direction and fail for distributions which use the -gnu 
> part at the end like gentoo does. 
> 
> If so, that's not a fix.

No, it doesn't.