can we get ada added to base/use.mask and then unmask it on profiles where it works ? i'd like to add USE=ada to ncurses but cant atm ...
Hi SpanKY I am not sure what exactly you request. There is only one ada USE flag that is local and is for extra syntax files installed by kdevelop. As such I see no reason for the ada flag to be masked or specially treated in profiles. The Ada support itself has nothing to do with a USE flag and that would not be possible anyway, for the reason that (what counts for some as a requirement to be a "real language" :)) to build Ada capable gcc you need an Ada capable gcc on your system. Therefore both Ada compilers we provide (the FSF and AdaCore versions) come as separate packages with an eselect module and their own eclasses and the libs under dev-ada directly depend on those, no special use flag involved.. Please elaborate. The way it is now I don't see anything that would prevent an ada useflag in ncurses. George
i cant use "ada? ( virtual/gnat )" in ncurses unless the flag is masked
So, you need to use a compiler, not jut install some intefraces? Then yes, I guess we can. I'll add ada to base/use.mask and -ada to default-linux/{x86,amd64,ppc}/use.mask Is this all you need? George
All done, please reopen if there is anything else left. George
