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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Silly TARGET fix in gcc means gprconfig can find the Ada runtime
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 20:01:11 +0000
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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.