Re: Unable to compile ada-mode

[Stephen Leake]

Colton Lewis <colton.w.lewis@protonmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, October 4, 2020 6:01:10 PM CDT Stephen Leake wrote:
>> 
>> Colton Lewis <colton.w.lewis@protonmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> >
>> > emacs-27.1
>> > ada-mode-7.1.4
>> > gnat-10.2.1
>> 
>> What is "gnat-10.2.1"? where did you get it?
>
> GCC version 10.2.1 from the default Fedora 32 repositories. 

Ok. Apparently Debian testing has gnat-10.2.0. I could test with the latest
Debian gnat release.

> On a tangent, the online Emacs manual 

Where?

> says ada-mode should be included in the standard distribution, but it
> wasn't. 

ada-mode used to be in Emacs core, but I moved it to ELPA. Apparently
that's a more complex process than I realized.

> Should it be there?

There is not yet a mechanism to bundle ELPA packages in the emacs
distribution. I don't see the point of doing that; people should be used
to installing Emacs packages, just like they install Debian (or Fedora
or ...) packages.

>    [Ada]          wisi-ada.adb
>    [Ada]          wisitoken.adb
> sal-gen_unbounded_definite_red_black_trees.adb:308:26: access
> discriminant in return aggregate would be a dangling reference

That's a new instance of a known bug; see the WORKAROUND note at line
321 in that file; delete the '.all' and it magically works.

> clang-10: warning: argument unused during compilation:
> '-specs=/tmp/GNAT-TEMP-000014.TMP' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]

This I don't understand

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-- Stephe