svn commit: r46545 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Tue Apr 14 23:16:09 UTC 2015

Author: bjk
Date: Tue Apr 14 23:16:07 2015
New Revision: 46545
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46545

Log:
  Add entry for the Ada ports
  
  Approved by:	hrs (mentor, implicit)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Tue Apr 14 23:07:20 2015	(r46544)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Tue Apr 14 23:16:07 2015	(r46545)
@@ -1371,4 +1371,52 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='ports'>
+    <title>FreeBSD Ada Ports</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>John</given>
+	  <common>Marino</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>marino at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://home.gna.org/ghdl/" />
+      <url href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghdl-updates/" />
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>There are 51 Ada-related ports currently, but two of them
+	are being retired: the GCC 4.7-based <tt>lang/gcc47-aux</tt> and
+	the BSD->android cross-compiler for ARMv5
+	(<tt>lang/gnatdroid-armv5</tt>).  The former has no advantage
+	over the newer GCC 4.9-based <tt>lang/gcc-aux</tt>, and the
+	latter has not built for over a year.  Android enthusiasts can
+	still use the the ARMv7 cross-compiler
+	(<tt>lang/gnatdroid-armv7</tt>).</p>
+
+      <p>A new port is <tt>lang/gcc5-aux</tt>, which includes GNAT
+	from the upcoming release of gcc5.  This compiler already builds
+	all Ada ports except gtkada3 (which blocks the
+	<tt>devel/gps</tt> — the GNAT Programming Studio), and
+	<tt>gtkada3</tt> should be fixed soon.  When GCC5 is released,
+	the Ada framework will switch to using <tt>gcc5-aux</tt> as the
+	default compiler.  For those that cannot wait, it is possible to
+	use it now by putting <tt>ADA_DEFAULT=5</tt> in /etc/make.conf,
+	but this requires rebuilding all Ada ports from source.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>It is a near-term objective to bring the Ada-based GDHL
+	  (VHDL simulator) to ports.  The upcoming release 0.32 will be
+	  based on GCC 4.9 and the port will be based on this release.</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
