pkgsrc/lang/gcc5-aux/DESCR
marino 25a442dca2 Import lang/gcc5-aux based on gcc-5.1
This compiler package is not like the lang/gcc4* packages, but rather
the lang/gcc-aux package which exists to bring GNAT, the Ada language
compiler.  The lang/gcc-aux package is based on gcc-4.9, and this
package is based on gcc-5.  This is the first gcc5 package in pkgsrc,
and it does support C, C++, ObjC, and Fortran in addition to Ada thus
it is very useful, but it does have a different purpose than other
gcc ports.

This port has had minimal testing.  I verified GNAT passes 100% of the
testsuite on NetBSD 6.1/amd64, but it has not been tested on any
NetBSD 5, 7.0 or 7.99 platform yet.  I don't have any hardware, so it
will require using a VM or having others report failure/success.  Due
to similarity with lang/gcc-aux, chances are good that it will build
and function properly on other platforms.

See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html for more information about
improvements over the gcc-4.9 series.
2015-06-15 09:46:27 +00:00

14 lines
783 B
Text

The AUX compiler supports several languages: Ada, C, C++, Fortran and
Objective-C. Since Ada support must be built by an Ada-capable compiler,
only platforms for which a bootstrap compiler is available can build it.
The AUX compiler is based on release versions of the Free Software
Foundation's GNU Compiler Collection. It carries with it the GMGPL license,
the modified version of the GPL that exempts generic instantiation from
resulting in a GPL-licensed executable. It also carries the GCC Runtime
Library Exception, so the resulting binaries have no licensing requirements.
Binaries produced by the AUX compiler should be legally handled the same as
binaries produced by any FSF compiler.
This compiler implements the full Ada-83, Ada-95, Ada-2005 and Ada-2012
standards.